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 Jezzine, Lebanon, during the South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000), Israeli occupation of South Lebanon. Twelve Israeli soldiers were killed and ten were injured.

Biography

Mehaidli was born in 1968 in the village of Anqoun, near Sidon, in Lebanon, in a Christianity in Lebanon, Christian 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".

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SSNP video in Arabic about Sana'a Mehaidli.
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