Sana'a Mehaidli ( ar, سناء محيدلي; August 14, 1968 – April 9, 1985) was a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party who, at the age of 16 blew herself and a Peugeot filled with explosives up next to an Israeli convoy in

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, Lebanon, during the Israeli occupation of South Lebanon. Twelve Israeli soldiers were killed and ten were injured.

Biography

Mehaidli was born in 1968 in the village of

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, near Sidon, in Lebanon, in a

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family. She has 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 that was affiliated with the Lebanese National Resistance Front. She is believed to have been the first female suicide bomber. She is known as "the Bride of the South".

References

External links

SSNP video in Arabic about Sana'a Mehaidli.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehaidli, Sanaa Female suicide bombers Lebanese criminals Female criminals Lebanese Christians Suicides in Lebanon 1968 births 1985 deaths Syrian Social Nationalist Party South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000) Deaths by car bomb in Lebanon