The five children killed in an Israeli strike on Irkay on March 13. (Credit: Montage Céline Bejjani)
“They were in the middle of telling me a secret,” recalls Jinane Taki. “Half a secret, because the line cut off.”It was Thursday, March 13. Jinane, 24, was in Ghazieh (Saida), speaking on video call with her cousins in Irkay, near Saida. “We were always on video call. We were very close. I was like their older sister,” she says.That day, five children from the same family, all residents of Irkay, were killed by an Israeli strike: Zainab Mohammad Taki, 13; her sisters Zahraa, 12, Malika, 9, and Yasmina, 6. Their cousin, Sadek Chawki Shakaron, 12, was killed along with his father in another house hit by the blast. Lives stolen Joud, 16, paramedic killed by Israel in Nabatieh The house in Irkay was full. Their relatives had fled their own homes in the South as Israeli attacks intensified. “My grandmother and grandfather were there, my...
“They were in the middle of telling me a secret,” recalls Jinane Taki. “Half a secret, because the line cut off.”It was Thursday, March 13. Jinane, 24, was in Ghazieh (Saida), speaking on video call with her cousins in Irkay, near Saida. “We were always on video call. We were very close. I was like their older sister,” she says.That day, five children from the same family, all residents of Irkay, were killed by an Israeli strike: Zainab Mohammad Taki, 13; her sisters Zahraa, 12, Malika, 9, and Yasmina, 6. Their cousin, Sadek Chawki Shakaron, 12, was killed along with his father in another house hit by the blast. Lives stolen Joud, 16, paramedic killed by Israel in Nabatieh The house in Irkay was full. Their relatives had fled their own homes in the South as Israeli attacks intensified. “My grandmother and grandfather...
