The portrait of one of Amani Bazzi's daughters, killed along with her brothers and father in an Israeli strike on September 21, during the funeral in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon, on September 23, 2025. MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP
Acil Charara, 13, was seriously injured by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon in September, and is now being treated at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. After weeks spent unconscious, she emerged from intensive care with a broken left arm. One of her legs was nearly amputated. Acil has only just begun to process another loss: just days ago, she learned that her father, brother, and sisters were all killed in the same attack.
All four were buried in Bint Jbeil, the family's ancestral Shiite village. Acil's mother Amani Bazzi Charara, 33, who was also wounded in the bombing, wanted her husband's grave to be placed between that of their youngest daughter, Celine, 10, and the shared tomb of their daughter Silane and son Hadi, 19-month-old twins.
Since the burial, Amani had not returned to Bint Jbeil. She and her parents, Sami and Fadia Bazzi, have remained at her daughter's bedside. As for Acil, she still needs several surgeries and intensive care that will be provided through the Ghassan Abu Sittah Fund for Wounded Children in Gaza and Lebanon, along with UNICEF.
