TYRE, Lebanon ¨C Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, 7, barely survived the Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as hopes of a truce spread across the region, but a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.
The strike on the Saeed ?family home in the village of Srifa took place on Wednesday, the first day of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire that many ?in Lebanon ?hoped would apply to their country, too. Instead, Israeli strikes killed more than 350 across ?Lebanon and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.
"They 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 ... suddenly we ?felt like a storm was landing right on us," said Nasser Saeed, Aline's 64-year-old grandfather, who also survived.
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