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Beirut, a child named after a devastated city, killed in Israeli strike
4 November 2023 15:27 GMT
Beirut Abu Shamala was born on 4 August 2020 in Gaza, hundreds of kilometres away from the Lebanese capital where, that same day, an explosion tore through the city.
The baby's parents decided to name her Beirut in honour of the city, its people and the 200 residents who were killed by the blast at the capital's port.
In a cruel twist of fate, Beirut herself would be killed three years later in an explosion, when an Israeli missile struck her home in Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip which had been designated as "safe" by Israel.
The news of Beirut's death and her story quickly spread around the Arab world, especially in Lebanon.
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