The face of Sarah Qadi in front of a cloud of smoke rising from an Israeli strike on the village of Douris, in the Bekaa, on March 12, 2026. (Photo by Nidal Solh/AFP, accompanied by a portrait of Sarah Qadi shared on social media. Montage by Céline Bejjani)
Two little roses and a heart frame the message Sarah Qadi sent to her schoolchildren on the morning of Friday, March 27, at 8:42 a.m.: "Good morning my students, don't forget our class: 1:50-2:30 p.m." But when the time came around for their class, the smiling 27-year-old English teacher never arrived. Some even contacted her parents, surprised by her unusual absence.Soon enough, Sarah's face, against a backdrop of roses, began circulating on people's screens. This time, however, it accompanied the announcement of her death. An Israeli airstrike minutes earlier had targeted her house, right in the middle of the village of Bezalieh, in northern Bekaa. How Israel killed a 16-year-old paramedic Joud, 16, paramedic killed by Israel in Nabatieh Ordinarily, Sarah would go every morning to the city of Hermel, to the...
Two little roses and a heart frame the message Sarah Qadi sent to her schoolchildren on the morning of Friday, March 27, at 8:42 a.m.: "Good morning my students, don't forget our class: 1:50-2:30 p.m." But when the time came around for their class, the smiling 27-year-old English teacher never arrived. Some even contacted her parents, surprised by her unusual absence.Soon enough, Sarah's face, against a backdrop of roses, began circulating on people's screens. This time, however, it accompanied the announcement of her death. An Israeli airstrike minutes earlier had targeted her house, right in the middle of the village of Bezalieh, in northern Bekaa. How Israel killed a 16-year-old paramedic Joud, 16, paramedic killed by Israel in Nabatieh Ordinarily, Sarah would go every morning to the city of Hermel, to the...
