Instead, Israeli strikes<\/a> killed more than 350 across Lebanon and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.<\/p>\n \u201cThey said it was a ceasefire. Like all these people, we went up to the village. We went to the casket to read the prayers and walk home \u2026 suddenly we felt like a storm was landing right on us,\u201d said Nasser Saeed, Aline\u2019s 64-year-old grandfather, who also survived.<\/p>\n On Sunday, he joined other relatives in the southern port city of Tyre to pick up the bodies wrapped in green cloth. One of them, a fraction the size of the rest, contained his granddaughter Taleen, Aline\u2019s sister.<\/p>\n She had not yet turned two.<\/p>\n With bandages to his head and right hand and scratches on his face, Saeed mourned in silence as the women around him turned their faces up to the sky and screamed in agony.<\/p>\n The Israeli military said that it did not have enough details to look into the incident, claiming that it takes measures to reduce harm to civilians in its strikes against Hezbollah.<\/p>\n The latest war in Lebanon began on March 2, when Lebanese Hezbollah fired on Israeli positions in support of Iran.<\/p>\n Israel has since escalated its air and ground campaign in the country, where its operations have killed more than 2,000 people, including 165 children and nearly 250 women.<\/p>\n Pope Leo on Sunday said how close he felt to the \u201cbeloved Lebanese people\u201d and called for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n In his weekly address to the faithful in St. Peter\u2019s Square, the pope said there was \u201ca moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the horrific effects of war.\u201d<\/p>\n Wednesday was one of the deadliest days in Lebanon\u2019s recent history.<\/p>\n \u201cThis isn\u2019t humanity. This is a war crime,\u201d Saeed told Reuters<\/em> at the hospital where Aline\u2019s mother, Ghinwa, was still being treated.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere are the human rights? If a child \u2014 a child! \u2014 is wounded in Israel, the whole world jumps up. Are we not people? Are we not humans? We\u2019re like them!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Taleen was born in 2024, in the last round of fierce clashes between Hezbollah and Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was born in the war and died in the war,\u201d said Mohammed Nazzal, Ghinwa\u2019s father.<\/p>\n Iran wanted a ceasefire for Lebanon as part of talks with the United States, which concluded on Sunday<\/a> without a breakthrough. But Israel wants to pursue talks with Lebanese officials through a separate track.<\/p>\n Heavy bombardment on Lebanon has continued, with nearly 100 people killed on Saturday.<\/p>\n Dr Abbas Attiyeh, head of emergency operations at Tyre\u2019s Jabal Amel hospital, said last week\u2019s bombardment was one of the heaviest in recent years and many of the patients arriving at his hospital were children.<\/p>\n![\"Relatives](\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/primary\/2026\/04\/12194006479fb81.webp\")
<\/div><\/a>Taleen \u2018born in war and died in war\u2019<\/h2>\n
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<\/div><\/a>Fierce bombardment continues<\/h2>\n