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Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Lamentations for a Fallen Leader: Thousands Gather to Mourn Ayatollah ... Dispatches from the Lebanese Stronghold Lamentations for a Fallen Leader: Thousands Gather to Mourn Ayatollah Khamenei By Fátima Fouad el-Samman Photographs by Fatima Joumaa Published on 01 March 2026 Thousands of Hezbollah supporters wept and swayed to Hussaini lamentations at a gathering in Dahieh’s Ashoura Square on Sunday, March 1, mourning Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei. Their cries grew louder each time someone invoked the name of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, whose image rose above the mourners’ heads as chants echoed through the square. For many supporters of the resistance group, the wound of their leader’s martyrdom has yet to heal. Fasting crowds of mourning men, women, children, and the elderly — all clad in black — marched toward the square from the early morning hours. They carried pictures of Khamenei pressed to their hearts. Joined in chest-beating rituals, waving the flags of Hezbollah and Iran, they chanted: “We will never accept humiliation.” By 4 p.m., Jamous Street was almost completely blocked. The sound of weeping moved through the gathering to the backdro…

Hezbollah leaders' historic funeral showed resistance strength: Islamic ... # The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement says the Hezbollah leaders’ massive funeral demonstrates the resistance’s strength and deepens the Israeli enemy’s existential crisis. The resistance is not just a choice but a deeply rooted path in the consciousness of the nation’s people, Islamic Jihad said in a statement on Sunday, paying tribute to martyred Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine The Israeli regime's attempts to intimidate mourners through “empty displays” and repression failed, reflecting its desperation and moral bankruptcy, it said. "The blood of the martyred leaders fuels the resistance’s determination, strengthening its will to achieve victory and liberation," the Islamic Jihad said. "Martyr Nasrallah and fellow leaders consistently upheld the centrality of Al-Quds Jerusalem and rejected concessions on Palestinian rights," it added. The resistance movement emphasized that the Lebanese people’s mass turnout reaffirmed unity with the resistance and commitment to continue the struggle until Palestine is fully liberated. The new secretary general…

Lebanese bury 13 officers killed by Israel as grief and ... - SFGATE Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon's coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Emilio Morenatti/AP Mohammed, 8, weeps next to the coffin of his father, Hussein Makkah, during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Emilio Morenatti/AP Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon's coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Emilio Morenatti/AP Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers who were killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon's coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Emilio Morenatti/AP Mourners react during the funeral of 13 state security officers who were killed the previous day in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon, Saturday, April 11, 2026. Emilio Morenatti/AP SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — Women in black screamed in grief and toddlers sobbed uncontrollably, cal…

Nasrallah's funeral: A million voices for Resistance FEB 24, 2025 A million-strong funeral in Beirut for Hezbollah’s martyred leader Hassan Nasrallah became a global declaration of defiance. It showed the backbone of resistance is not just intact – it is unbreakable. Khalil Harb The sight of Lebanese resistance flags fluttering near the border with the occupation state has long unsettled Israelis. But themassive funeralthat unfolded in Beirut on Sunday afternoon for the martyred former Hezbollah secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah would have commanded their undivided attention – and they were not the only ones watching. Lebanese citizens, whether supporters or critics of the resistance movement, along with its allies across the Arab and Islamic worlds, the Global South, and even in western countries where some governments oppose it, witnessed an extraordinary moment. Sunday’s rare mass gathering sent an unmistakable message: the spirit of those who resist oppression will never be broken. As theNew York Timesobserved, the event was “a show of strength.” The funeral reportedly drew an estimated 1.4 million attendees – nearly 25 percent of Lebanon’s population – positioni…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

South Lebanon village mourns dead in new war with Israel South Lebanon village mourns dead in new war with Israel by Acil Tabbara Jun 17, 2026 Add AL-MONITOR on Google In the cemetery in south Lebanon's Deir Qanun al-Nahr, gravediggers prepare tombs for the village's "martyrs" in the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, near those killed in the previous conflicts between the foes — MAHMOUD ZAYYAT Gravediggers in a southern Lebanon village prepare tombs for the dead in Israeli strikes during the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, near those killed in the previous conflicts between the foes. In front of recent graves bearing three huge portraits in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, Shourouk Hariri, 32, wept for her twin brother and volunteer rescuer Ahmad, one of his colleagues, and her uncle, a local civilian. "We arrived in the village yesterday and went straight to the place where Ahmad was killed, before coming here to the cemetery," said Hariri, dressed in black like her 10-year-old daughter by her side. "We came here to understand what happened... we still can't believe he's gone," she told AFP. Displaced south Lebanon residents have started to return to their devastated villages and towns since an agree…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Hezbollah leaders' historic funeral showed resistance strength: Islamic ... Iran Press TV Sunday, 23 February 2025 7:32 PM The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement says the Hezbollah leaders' massive funeral demonstrates the resistance's strength and deepens the Israeli enemy's existential crisis. The resistance is not just a choice but a deeply rooted path in the consciousness of the nation's people, Islamic Jihad said in a statement on Sunday, paying tribute to martyred Hezbollah leaders Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Sayyed Hashem Safieddine The Israeli regime's attempts to intimidate mourners through "empty displays" and repression failed, reflecting its desperation and moral bankruptcy, it said. "The blood of the martyred leaders fuels the resistance's determination, strengthening its will to achieve victory and liberation," the Islamic Jihad said. "Martyr Nasrallah and fellow leaders consistently upheld the centrality of Al-Quds Jerusalem and rejected concessions on Palestinian rights," it added. The resistance movement emphasized that the Lebanese people's mass turnout reaffirmed unity with the resistance and commitment to continue the struggle until Palestine …

Palestinian boy, 11, sole survivor of strike that killed his father and ... Home International Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, left, a Palestinian paediatrician, lost her husband, also a doctor, and nine of their 10 children in an airstrike in Khan Younis. (Hatem Khaled/Reuters) Photo: (Hatem Khaled/Reuters) RCI Posted: June 3, 2025 11:04 AM Adam and his mother are all that's left of their family after an Israeli airstrike hit their Khan Younis home. WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of injury and death. Adam, 11, smiles brightly in the face of unimaginable horrors. The Palestinian boy is recovering in Gaza's Nasser Hospital from injuries sustained in a May 23 Israeli airstrike on his home that killed his father, who was a doctor, and all nine of his siblings. Adam is doing remarkably well. He is much, much better than I thought he would [be], Dr. Graeme Groom, the British orthopaedic surgeon caring the boy, told As It Happens host Nil Kӧksal. He has an angelic little face and it lights up in the most gorgeous smile. Adam and his mother, a pediatrician who was working at Nasser when her husband and children were killed, are now their immediate family's sole survivors. And thei…

Community mourns father, 3 children killed by Israeli strike in Bint Jebail Photos of the victims displayed at their memorial services at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center in Dearborn. – Photo by Dearborn.org DEARBORN — The Lebanese community in Dearborn was struck with grief after three children from the Charara family, along with their father, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted them as they were visiting relatives in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jebail on Sunday, September 21. Family members received condolences at the Bint Jebail Cultural Center on Monday and Tuesday, followed by a memorial at the Islamic Center of America on Thursday. A one-week commemoration service will take place this Sunday at the Islamic Center of America. Nidal Charara, 50 , a Dearborn resident and brother of Shadi Charara, 45, told The Arab American News that an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle on the outskirts of Bint Jbeil, killing his brother, along with his 8-year-old niece, Celine, and his 18-month-old twin nephews, Hadi and Silan. Charara’s eldest niece, Asil, 12, was critically wounded and remains hospitalized with her injured mother, Amina Bazzi. Shadi Charara, a car …

Deir Qanoun mourns fighters and civilians killed in Israel's war Gravediggers in a southern Lebanon village prepare tombs for the dead in Israeli strikes during the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, near those killed in the previous conflicts between the foes. In front of recent graves bearing three huge portraits in Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, Shourouk Hariri, 32, wept for her twin brother and volunteer rescuer Ahmad, one of his colleagues, and her uncle, a local civilian. "We arrived in the village yesterday and went straight to the place where Ahmad was killed, before coming here to the cemetery," said Hariri, dressed in black like her 10-year-old daughter by her side. "We came here to understand what happened... we still can't believe he's gone," she told AFP. Displaced south Lebanon residents have started to return to their devastated villages and towns since an agreement announced between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war and which is supposed to include Lebanon. Death has touched every family in the normally peaceful village, located in the hills not far from the coastal city of Tyre. Ahmad Hariri, also a photographer, left behind a wife and three-year-old dau…

Huge Crowds At Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah's Funeral Home west asia Israel Huge Crowds At Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah’s Funeral Select Preferred on Google News Hundreds of thousands of people bid farewell to Hezbollah’s slain leader Hassan Nasrallah at a mass funeral in Beirut on Sunday, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in a stunning blow to the Iranian-backed group. Carrying pictures of Nasrallah and Hezbollah flags, supporters from Lebanon and other countries in the region filled the 55,000-seat Camille Chamoun Sports City stadium in the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut. After a ceremony, they joined a funerary procession outside the stadium before burying Nasrallah nearby. A Lebanese security source estimated the crowd to be about a million people. Nasrallah’s Killing The killing of Nasrallah, who led the Shi’ite Muslim group through decades of conflict with Israel and oversaw its transformation into a military force with regional sway, was one of the opening salvos in an Israeli escalation that badly weakened Hezbollah. But the group’s current leader, Naim Qassem, whose address to mourners was broadcast on screens from an undisclosed …

'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters ... This Lebanese man—who was wounded in the same Israeli airstrike that killed his parents, four daughters, and other relatives—speaks to an Al Jazeera reporter on March 13, 2026. One journalist said that "the massacres are multiplying" as IDF bombing kills hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, and US-Israeli strikes kill and wound thousands of Iranians. A grieving Lebanese father said he buried his parents, four young daughters, and other relatives on Friday after they were killed by an Israeli airstrike—one of many that have wiped out families inGaza,Lebanon, and Iran. "I lost four of mychildren, four daughters, they were all I had," the unidentified man—whose face and head were visibly injured from what he said was the same Israeli strike—toldAl Jadeed TV, an independent Lebanese outlet. "Four daughters: Zainab, Zahraa, Maleeka, and Yasmine." "And my mother and father," he added. "Praise be to God. God's greatness is abundant." According toAl Jazeera, the man's brother-in-law and nephew were also killed in the strike. "The Israeli enemy says every day that it is targetinginfrastructure," he told…

Mourners in southern Lebanon bury father and son killed in Israeli ... Mourners carry the coffins of the child Ali Jaber, 4 who was killed with his father policeman Hassan, 38, during their funeral procession in Yanouh village, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) The father of policeman Hassan Jaber, 38, who was killed with his son Ali, 4, on Monday by an Israeli drone attack, mourns during their funeral procession in Yanouh village, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Lebanese special forces policemen carry the coffins of their comrade Hassan Jaber, 38, who was killed on Monday with his son Ali, 4, by an Israeli drone attack, during their funeral procession in Yanouh village, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Mourners carry the coffins of policeman Hassan Jaber, 38, and his son Ali, 4, who were killed on Monday by an Israeli drone attack, during their funeral procession in Yanouh village, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) Relatives of policeman Hassan Jaber, 38, who was killed on Monday by an Israeli drone attack, mourn over his coffin during his fun…

Grief and Resilience: Lebanon Village Marks Eid Among War Dead ... In the war-devastated southern Lebanese village of Aitaroun on Monday, residents marked the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Fitr among their dead. Relatives crowded the village's cemeteries to pray for the more than 100 residents, including fighters from Hezbollah, killed during the war between the militant group and Israel that ended with a fragile ceasefire in November. "We defied the entire world by being here in Aitaroun to celebrate Eid with our martyrs," Siham Ftouni said near the grave of her son, a rescuer with an Islamic health organisation affiliated with Hezbollah. "Their blood permitted us to come back to our village," she said. During the war, Lebanese state media reported that Israeli troops used explosives in Aitaroun and two nearby villages to blow up houses. The town square is heavily damaged. Few people have returned to live or to reopen businesses. The story is the same in other villages in southern Lebanon. In Aitaroun, more than 90 of the village's dead — including some who died from natural causes — were buried only a month ago when Israeli troops pulled out. Under the ceasefire, Israel had 6…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

People in Jerusalem are mourning after a recent shooting outside a ... People in Jerusalem are mourning after a recent shooting outside a synagogue NPR | By Daniel Estrin Published February 5, 2023 at 7:04 AM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:57 AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Behind the headlines of a Palestinian gunman's recent attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue are the stories of families trying to make sense of what happened that night. NPR's Daniel Estrin brings us this on the family of two of the victims and the family of the gunman. DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: I visit the small apartment of an Israeli family torn apart. Tal Barashi sits on a thin mattress on the floor. It's the Jewish mourning custom. Recently she mourned the death of one brother. They attribute his death to post-traumatic stress disorder from his experiences in one of Israel's wars. Now she's mourning another brother, Eli, killed a couple of nights before we talked. TAL BARASHI: He very loved to help people all the time. He all the time search for people who need help. ESTRIN: He and his wife were eating Sabbath dinner in this apartment. They heard shooting outside, ran out to help the …

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…

Overcrowded cemeteries: War robs Gaza of funeral rites as unclaimed ... Overcrowded cemeteries: War robs Gaza of funeral rites as unclaimed bodies piled up in morgues Posted by Reporter | Oct 29, 2023 It was neither the place nor the time for a proper goodbye, said Omar Dirawi. Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags. And not now, as Israeli airstrikes crashed around him for the third week, erasing more of his neighborhood and sundering hundreds of families and friendships. Yet in Gaza’s central town of Zawaideh, the 22-year-old Palestinian photojournalist buried 32 members of his family who were killed in Israeli air raids on October 15. Dirawi’s aunts, uncles, and cousins from Gaza City had heeded Israeli military evacuation orders and taken refuge in his home farther south. Days later Dirawi was unloading their bodies from the back of a truck, digging a narrow trench partitioned with cinder blocks and reciting abbreviated funeral prayers before nightfall, when Israeli warplanes screeched and everyone ran indoors. “There’s nothing that feels right about this,” Dirawi said of the mass burial. “I haven’t even grieved. Bu…

Ramadan brings a season of grief after an Israeli strike wiped ... - WTOP The Associated Press February 28, 2026, 12:04 AM GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — As the sun sets, Saddam al-Yazji, his wife and their daughter sip a noodle soup, breaking theirdaily Ramadan fastin Gaza City. They sit around a folding table set up in the dirt at the foot of a towering pile of rubble, twisted metal and concrete slabs that was once their home. Buriedunder the debrisare the bodies of much of their family. The three are virtually the family’s only survivors. Al-Yazji’s parents, his three brothers and his sister, along with most of their children, and his wife’s parents and siblings — 40 relatives in total — were all killed in a single strike when Israeli forces bombed the house in December 2023. The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is traditionally a time for family, with large, festive gatherings for iftar, the sunset meal that ends the daily fast. In the Gaza Strip, it has become a season whenwartime losses hit especially deepfor the many familiesgrieving loved oneskilled by Israeli forces, which have beenfighting Hamasfor more than two years. “I look at photos of our gatherings in Ramadan and …

Nasrallah's Funeral: A million voices for Resistance By Khalil Harb – Feb 24, 2025 A million-strong funeral in Beirut for Hezbollah’s martyred leader Hassan Nasrallah became a global declaration of defiance. It showed the backbone of resistance is not just intact – it is unbreakable. The sight of Lebanese resistance flags fluttering near the border with the occupation state has long unsettled ‘Israelis’. But the massive funeral that unfolded in Beirut on Sunday afternoon for the martyred former Hezbollah secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah would have commanded their undivided attention – and they were not the only ones watching. Lebanese citizens, whether supporters or critics of the resistance movement, along with its allies across the Arab and Islamic worlds, the Global South, and even in western countries where some governments oppose it, witnessed an extraordinary moment. Sunday’s rare mass gathering sent an unmistakable message: the spirit of those who resist oppression will never be broken. As the New York Times observed, the event was “a show of strength.” The funeral reportedly drew an estimated 1.4 million attendees – nearly 25 percent of Lebanon’s population – posi…

South Lebanon village mourns dead in new war with Israel <p>Gravediggers in a southern Lebanon village prepare tombs for the dead in Israeli strikes during the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, near those killed in the previous conflicts between the foes.</p><p>In front of recent graves bearing three huge portraits in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, Shourouk Hariri, 32, wept for her twin brother and volunteer rescuer Ahmad, one of his colleagues, and her uncle, a local civilian.</p>

Women weep and mourn during a sermon marking the third day of Ashoura, the Shiite Muslim commemoration of the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday, June 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By Associated Press PUBLISHED: June 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM EDT | UPDATED: June 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM EDT Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KAREEM CHEHAYEB TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Wearing a yellow scarf showing her son killed fighting for Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Iman Dilbani wept during a religious sermon Friday in the battered southern city of Tyre during the Islamic holy month of Muharram. Tyre, Lebanon’s fourth largest city, has been devastated by the Israel-Hezbollah war that reached a reported ceasefire Friday , with damaged buildings and structures reduced to rubble seen on almost every street following intense Israeli airstrikes. Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Muslims and marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the seventh century in present-day Iraq. Dilbani and hundreds more gathered Friday in a lot…