Sana'a Mehaidli

Sana'a Mehaidli
Mehaidli in her SSNP uniform
Born14 August 1968 (1968)
Anqoun, Sidon District, South Governorate, Lebanon
Died (aged 16)
Jezzine, Jezzine District, South Governorate
Cause of deathSuicide bombing
OrganizationSyrian Social Nationalist Party

Sana'a Youssef Mehaidli (Arabic: سناء يوسف محيدلي; 14 August 1968 – 9 April 1985) was a Lebanese militant and member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) who, at the age of 16, blew herself up next to an Israeli convoy in Jezzine, Lebanon, during the South Lebanon conflict (1985-2000). Two Israeli soldiers were killed and ten others were injured in the attack.[1][2][3]

Biography

Mehaidli was born on 14 August 1968 in the Lebanese village of Anqoun to a Shia Muslim family.[4][5][6][7][8] Sana'a's mother, Fatima, died when Sana'a was three years old and her father, Youssef, later remarried. From her father's second marriage, she had three brothers, Haitham, Mohammad, and Rami, and one sister, Abeer. Despite the conditions of the Lebanese Civil War, the family stayed in Beirut. In her spare time after studying, Sana'a worked at a video store in Mousaitbeh, where she later recorded her will. In early 1985, she joined the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) that was affiliated with the Lebanese National Resistance Front.[9][8][10]

She may have been the first female suicide bomber, according to some researchers.[11][12][13][14] She is known as "the Bride of the South".[15]

References

  1. ^ "(Female) Suicide Bombers". HuffPost. huffingtonpost.com. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
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  4. ^ سناء محيدلي عروس الجنوب - سناء محيدلي عروس الجنوب اللبناني. 6 December 2013. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  5. ^ علي, أسامة (3 October 2024). "مقاومة الظلم ليست حكراً على عقيدة أو دين". alaraby.co.uk. العربي الجديد. سناء محيدلي، الشيعية المحسوبة على التيار القومي
  6. ^ Ziadé, Lamia. "Ma très grande mélancolie arabe". pol-editeur.com. P.O.L. Elle a 16 ans. Elle est chiite. Elle s'appelle Sana'a Mehaidli. [She is 16 years old. She is shiite. Her name is Sana'a Mehaidli.]
  7. ^ Abu Rumman, Mohammad; Abu Hanieh, Hassan (2017). Infatuated with Martyrdom: Female Jihadism from Al-Qaeda to the ‘Islamic State’ (PDF). Translated by Banan Malkawi. Jordan & Iraq: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. p. 153. ISBN 978-9957-484-75-0. A Shiite operating with a secularist party "The Syrian Social Nationalist Party", Sanaa Mehaidli, nicknamed 'the bride of the South', was not only the first Lebanese woman martyr, but also the first to undertake this type of mission."
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  9. ^ "History's First Female Suicide Bomber — Bride Of The South". Medium.com. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  10. ^ محيدلي, جاد (9 April 2019). "حقائق ومعلومات حول عروس الجنوب سناء محيدلي!". annahar.com. An-Nahar.
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  14. ^ Rajan, V. G. Julie (2011). Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence. Routledge. p. 225. ISBN 9781136760211. Retrieved 13 October 2015. Rosemary Skaine writes about Sana'a Mehaidli the first terrorist suicide bomber and first women bomber for the Syrian Socialist Network Party ...
  15. ^ Wedeen, Lisa (15 June 1999). Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226877884. Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via Google Books.
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