Young Lebanese Girl Recounts Witnessing Parents Killed in Israeli Attack
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency, an Al Mayadeen reporter spoke with a young Lebanese girl who witnessed her parents being killed during an Israeli drone strike on their home.
The interview is as follows:
Reporter: We are now in the town of Qabriyeh, accompanied by a little girl who miraculously survived last night’s drone attack that claimed the lives of her parents.
Reporter: First of all, thank God you are safe. Tell us what happened?
The little girl: I was playing with my phone in my room. just playing one of those games.
The girl said: I heard a sound like a missile entering the washing machine area but it actually hit the ground.
the Lebanese girl continued: I waited for the dust to settle. I thought I was dreaming; I believed it was just my imagination.
She added: I pinched myself trying to wake up, but I couldn’t.
the Lebanese girl whent on: when the second strike came, I realized this wasn’t a dream and it was from Israel.
The girl said: I went under a wooden table, stood up and pressed myself down tightly. Then, I started praying and kept saying, “God protect me; God protect me.”
The little girl added: Then,I pretended to be dead so that the enemy wouldn’t target me again.
She said: When the dust cleared, I came out looking for my mom and dad. Mom was lying on the floor.
The little girl added: I called out “Mom.” The last word Mom said was “Zainab.” After that,I heard nothing else. Dad wasn’t breathing at all.
The girl said she took their phones along with a flashlight she found. She turned on the flashlight and started running inside their damaged house where many trees had fallen as well. Then she saw an ambulance and screamed at it with all her might.
She explained this desperate cry was because she wanted to save herself-she wanted to survive. “I am still just a child,” she said. “I wont to live my life like any other child-I don’t want to die.”
The little lebanese concluded by saying softly, “You were the best mom and dad in the world.”
