Haje Nahed Hijazi was about to fall asleep in Sydney when her daughter Zainab told her the Lebanese home their family was taking refuge in had been hit by an Israeli air strike that is under review by Israel Defense Forces.
Sydney family that lost 19 family members in Israel i air strike on building in Lebanon say they will 'never be the same again'on October 14, when her daughter burst into her room announcing the Lebanese home their family was taking refuge in"I jumped out of bed, and I grabbed my phone to call someone, and then I dropped it," she said.
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire since the Israel-Gaza war erupted after Hamas's October 7 attack. They lived in a village where people finished their farm work in the morning and rested before visiting each other in the afternoon to "have coffee, joke around and have fun"."My cousins taught me so much Arabic, so much swear words in Arabic … they taught us everything we needed to know about living in Lebanon," she said.
But on October 14, an Israeli air strike flattened the residential building the Hijazi family were staying in.Zainab's great uncle Hassan lost his wife Haje Sekne Hijazi, 55, and his three children Muhammad, 25, Ali, 30, and Abbas, 20, in the air strike.
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