Sana'a Mehaidli

Sana'a Youssef Mehaidli was a Lebanese militant and member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party 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.

Biography

Mehaidli was born on 14 August 1968 in the Lebanese village of Anqoun to a Shia Muslim family. 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 that was affiliated with the Lebanese National Resistance Front.
She may have been the first female suicide bomber, according to some researchers. She is known as "the Bride of the South".