Sana'a Mehaidli Explained

Sana'a Mehaidli (Arabic: سناء محيدلي; 14 August 1968 – 9 April 1985) 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.[1] [2] [3]

Biography

Mehaidli was born in 1968 in the Lebanese village of Anqoun (near Sidon),[4] into a Christian family.[5] She had four brothers and one sister. She worked at a video store, 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.[6]

She may have been the first female suicide bomber, according to some researchers.[7] [8] [9] [10] She is known as "the Bride of the South".[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: (Female) Suicide Bombers. . 12 August 2008. huffingtonpost.com. 8 June 2016.
  2. http://mac.abc.se/~onesr/ez/isl/0-sbm/The.Hijacked.Caravan.html The Hijacked Caravan
  3. Web site: Did you know the first suicide bombing may have occurred in 1881?. 8 June 2016.
  4. Web site: سناء محيدلي عروس الجنوب - سناء محيدلي عروس الجنوب اللبناني . 6 December 2013 . 8 June 2016 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20131206115419/http://sanaamehaidli.com/content/view/8/11/ . December 6, 2013 .
  5. Book: Jan N. Bremmer. Maidens, Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity. 2017. 9783161544507. 416. Mohr Siebeck .
  6. Web site: History's First Female Suicide Bomber — Bride Of The South. Medium.com. 2022-06-27. 2022-04-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20220426162131/https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/historys-first-female-suicide-bomber-bride-of-the-south-1ed796551c58. dead.
  7. http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB408.pdf FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS
  8. Book: Zedalis, Debra D.. Female Suicide Bombers. 1 August 2004. The Minerva Group, Inc.. 9781410215932. 8 June 2016. Google Books.
  9. http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/jan2008/female_bombers.html Female Suicide Bombers
  10. Book: Rajan. V. G. Julie. Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence. 2011. Routledge.. 225. 9781136760211. 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 ....
  11. Book: Wedeen, Lisa. Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. 15 June 1999. University of Chicago Press. 9780226877884. 8 June 2016. Google Books.

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