‘Why Us?’: A Tidal Wave of Grief in Lebanon

Many of those killed in the attack had fled other parts of southern Lebanon last week under Israeli evacuation orders and sought refuge in the homes of relatives in Sidon, the relatives and their neighbors said.

Narmin Jradi, 20, who had planned her wedding, was on the ground floor when she died. Majid and Malek Hannach were rambunctious siblings, 12 and 13.

Mohammad Hannach, 18, from Nabatieh, worried whether the war would disrupt his plans to study engineering at university next year.