Her Name Is Fatima Abdullah: A 9-Year-Old Girl Killed in Pager Attack

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“The enemy killed us using this small device!” mourners chanted at the funeral for Fatima Abdullah, a fourth grader.

Mourners gathered in the village of Saraain on Wednesday for the funeral of the youngest confirmed victim of the pager attack in Lebanon: 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah.

“The enemy killed us using this small device!” mourners chanted as they made their way through the dry grass of a cemetery. “They killed our child Fatima!”

Zeinab Mousawi, an aunt, said Fatima had just come home from her first day of fourth grade not long before the attack. Many of the mourners were Fatima’s school friends, their faces contorted with grief and shock at the violent death of someone so young.

She was one of two children killed in the attacks on Tuesday that Lebanese officials said had left at least 12 people dead, and that injured nearly 2,800 others. Lebanon’s health minister, Firass Abiad, said on Wednesday that a second child had died from injuries sustained in the attack. Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group whose members were the apparent target of the explosions, named the second child as Bilal Kanj, 11.

In the attack, pagers across Lebanon simultaneously exploded at 3:30 p.m.

Full article:  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/middleeast/lebanon-funeral...

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