On November 18, 2024, a missile launched by Hezbollah slipped past Israel’s defenses and struck the apartment building where Razan and her family lived. Only her mother, Safa, was home at the time. Razan heartbreakingly recounts, “It was a direct hit into the bomb shelter. It came through the ceiling and into the floor below that had a reinforced shelter room. My mom was inside that room.”

Razan’s mother, Safa—a 50-year-old schoolteacher with four children—was killed when the rocket tore through the walls of their safe room. A neighbor who witnessed the tragedy still remembers it vividly. “It was a huge explosion. No one really knew where it was. Suddenly the whole neighborhood was buried in dust. And it was not just fragments; it was the rocket itself. It was a direct hit. So, there is n

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