Three-month-old Hassan and his mother Amal, both killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Saksakieh, southern Lebanon, on March 27, 2026. (Photo: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP accompanied by a portrait of Amal Kawtharani and her baby, provided by her brother Hassan Kawtharani. Montage by Céline Bejjani/L'Orient-Le Jour)
A full photo album, found almost intact amid the rubble of a building reduced to dust, where Amal had meticulously stored the first ultrasounds, moments, and smiles of her first and only child.The 39-year-old mother and her three-and-a-half-month-old baby were both killed in an unannounced Israeli airstrike on Saksakieh, a small coastal village south of Saida. In this modest three-story building, now completely destroyed, lived three of the eight Kawtharani children: Hussein, a soldier in the Lebanese Army; Hassan, a farmer; and Amal, a nurse. In the garden, they had set up a small homestead, consisting only of an aviary and a few chickens and cows, which the village preschoolers would come to visit every once and a while. The people killed in Israel's April 8 assault on Lebanon Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8...
A full photo album, found almost intact amid the rubble of a building reduced to dust, where Amal had meticulously stored the first ultrasounds, moments, and smiles of her first and only child.The 39-year-old mother and her three-and-a-half-month-old baby were both killed in an unannounced Israeli airstrike on Saksakieh, a small coastal village south of Saida. In this modest three-story building, now completely destroyed, lived three of the eight Kawtharani children: Hussein, a soldier in the Lebanese Army; Hassan, a farmer; and Amal, a nurse. In the garden, they had set up a small homestead, consisting only of an aviary and a few chickens and cows, which the village preschoolers would come to visit every once and a while. The people killed in Israel's April 8 assault on Lebanon Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April...