{"id":2024,"date":"2021-08-04T14:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:19:40","slug":"families-of-beirut-blast-child-victims-demand-justice-a-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/families-of-beirut-blast-child-victims-demand-justice-a-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of Beirut blast child victims demand justice a year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One year after deadly explosion in Lebanese capital, grieving families who lost their children continue to seek justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beirut, Lebanon<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 August 4, 2020, began as a mundane morning for Samer Tibati, a Syrian worker from Lattakia, living in the semi-industrial Karantina neighbourhood near the Beirut port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter Bissan came up to me, told me she loved me, and asked me for some money,\u201d Tibati told Al Jazeera. \u201cShe then bought chocolate and gave it to everyone living on our street.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/li-auto-china-tesla-rival-plans-hong-kong-secondary-listing\/\">Li Auto: China Tesla rival plans Hong Kong secondary listing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/european-super-league-everton-criticise-preposterous-arrogance-of-breakaway-league\/\">European Super League: Everton criticise preposterous arrogance of breakaway league<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-1vsenwb\">\n<p>Later that day, the devastating\u00a0Beirut port explosion\u00a0tore through the neighbourhood, badly wounding the seven-year-old girl. He ran to her, cradled her in his arms, and tried to find someone to take them to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Tibati hopped on the back of a motorcycle driver who offered them a ride. It took hours until they found a hospital that had room for Bissan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looked like pieces of shrapnel from a bomb pierced into her,\u201d Tibati recalled. \u201cThe doctors said it was critical, but I would keep asking every day if she could get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven days later, Bissan died.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"1\">The explosion killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands and flattened several neighbourhoods in the Lebanese capital. Bissan was one of at least seven children killed in the disaster; the youngest was just five months old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a portrait of her on the wall, and I look at her while I have my morning coffee,\u201d Tibati said. \u201cAnd then I hear her voice saying \u2018Dad, please help me,\u2019 but I can\u2019t help her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One year later, Tibati is still in a world of pain. He still struggles to hold back his tears whenever he talks about his daughter. \u201cLook how lovely she is,\u201d he said as his voice trembled, scrolling through dozens of photos and videos of her on his phone. \u201cShe was just a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1481001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figure id=\"attachment_1481001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481001\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1481001 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Samer-Tibati-1-Kareem-Chehayeb.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C578\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1481001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE COPYRIGHT \/ AFP\/ Samer Tibati with a photo of daughter Bissan [Kareem Chehayeb\/Al Jazeera]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Tibati had left Syria five years before the explosion to secure a safer life for Bissan and his two-year-old son Hassan. Instead, he faced one of the worst days of his life in Beirut. He is worried that his wife and Hassan could meet a similar fate, because he fears something similar could happen again.<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI already lost my daughter, and I\u2019m not willing to lose the rest of my family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As Lebanon marks the first anniversary of the port explosion on Wednesday, grieving families who lost their children continue to demand truth and justice in vain.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion was caused by the ignition of tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, stored in a port warehouse filled with other hazardous material since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But rights groups and families of victims accuse officials of\u00a0obstructing the probe\u00a0into the explosion, which has so far been failed to hold high-level officials to account or reveal the exact causes of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have so far rejected lead investigator Judge Tarek Bitar\u2019s requests to lift the immunity of several high-ranking lawmakers and security chiefs so they can be questioned on the suspicion of criminal negligence, as well as homicide with probable intent.<\/p>\n<p>The officials include caretaker Prime Minister Hasan Diab, ex-Public Works and Transport Ministers Yousef Finianos and Ghazi Zeiter, ex-Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil, and ex-Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk, as well as General Security chief Major-General Abbas Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"3\">Meanwhile, Lebanon has been\u00a0without a full-fledged government\u00a0for almost a year, after Diab resigned in the wake of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>And while political leaders wriggle their way out of accountability and bicker over ministries and political positions in almost a year of government deadlock, the families who lost their children and loved ones grieve their deaths.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018I want everyone to know who Elias was\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cFor me, life has stopped,\u201d Mireille Khoury told Al Jazeera. Her 15-year-old son, Elias, was in his bedroom just a few hundred metres from the port as the building shook and glass blew out the windows. He succumbed to his wounds two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey destroyed our family,\u201d Khoury said.<\/p>\n<p>Elias\u2019s classmates gathered at his high school and carried his coffin as they bid him farewell. They continue to pay tribute to him on social media. \u201cOur grief is the price of loving such a beautiful spirit,\u201d one post read.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"vjs_video_603\" class=\"video-js vjs-paused vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 vjs-user-active vjs-layout-large bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default-index-1 vjs-mouse vjs-ima3-not-playing-yet vjs-ima3-html5 vjs-dock vjs-plugins-ready vjs-player-info vjs-contextmenu vjs-contextmenu-ui vjs-errors vjs-ad-controls vjs-quality-menu not-hover\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"region\" data-video-id=\"6265579659001\" aria-label=\"Video Player\">Elias\u2019s family was also wounded. Khoury is still recovering from fractures in her lower back.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her 21-year-old daughter Nour badly injured her left hand and still needs surgery to fix her left eyelid, but she still completed her university degree, and got in to medical school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe did it for Elias,\u201d Khoury told Al Jazeera. \u201cHe was so proud of her that she wanted to be a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elias and his friend Shady recorded and released a song together less than a month before the explosion. They had worked on a second song, which Shady released posthumously later in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to the song once,\u201d Khoury said. \u201cI miss his voice, so I start listening to the song, but then I can\u2019t continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"5\">Elias was seen as the peacemaker among his friends, and his mother believes he would have dedicated his life to helping people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would have created or done something to make a difference for humanity,\u201d she said. \u201cEveryone loved being around Elias, because you couldn\u2019t talk to him without smiling or laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cI miss Isaac every second\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Sarah Copland and her husband left Beirut to return home to Melbourne, Australia, just a couple of weeks after the explosion took the life of their two-year-old son, Isaac Oehlers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe word that comes to mind to me is just \u2018confusing\u2019,\u201d Copland told Al Jazeera. \u201cI went from having Isaac, who was magically thriving and changing every day, and suddenly he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moments before the explosion, Isaac was sitting on his high chair in the living room next to her and her husband Craig.<\/p>\n<p>The little boy was hit with glass, and passed away at the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1480999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figure id=\"attachment_1480999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480999\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1480999 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Isaac-3-Courtesy-of-Sarah-Copland.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C1027\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"1027\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1480999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE COPYRIGHT \/ AFP\/ Two-year old Isaac Oehlers, who passed away at hospital [Courtesy of Sarah Copland]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<div id=\"aljazeera_incontent_dynamic6\" class=\"fs-dynamic\" data-slot=\"complete\" data-freestar-ad=\"__728x90  __336x280\" data-google-query-id=\"CNvkluTCl_ICFVTL1QodXkENtA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/15184186\/aljazeera_incontent_dynamic_5__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-inc=\"6\">Isaac had been learning Arabic and French. \u201cEveryone was so welcoming, especially to Isaac. Everyone loved him. He was an outgoing kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copland\u2019s second son Ethan was born in late October 2020, almost three months after the explosion. \u201cHe is what keeps me putting one foot ahead of the other,\u201d she said. \u201cHe is my coping mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One year on, she said much of the shock has now turned into anger.<\/p>\n<p>The family is outraged that the investigation remains stalled, and they continue to support families back in Lebanon demanding justice. Copland says the world has \u201cmoved on\u201d far too quickly, and is among many families and human rights organisations calling for an international investigation to end the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a mother, nothing stops,\u201d Copland explained. \u201cI want to always do things for Isaac, and it gives me purpose that I can continue to do something for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"vjs_video_1072\" class=\"video-js vjs-paused vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 vjs-user-active vjs-layout-large bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default-index-2 vjs-mouse vjs-ima3-not-playing-yet vjs-ima3-html5 vjs-dock vjs-plugins-ready vjs-player-info vjs-contextmenu vjs-contextmenu-ui vjs-errors vjs-ad-controls vjs-quality-menu not-hover\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"region\" data-video-id=\"6264916311001\" aria-label=\"Video Player\"><span style=\"color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 27px;\">Fighting for justice<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In October 2019, when mass protests swept Lebanon demanding their rulers step aside, Paul Naggear carried his three-year-old daughter Alexandra on his shoulders to show her the sea of protesters in central Beirut\u2019s Martyrs Square.<\/p>\n<p>It was a time of hope that Lebanon, troubled throughout its history with conflict, political crises and rampant corruption, could soon change for the better.<\/p>\n<p>But nine months later, the Beirut port explosion destroyed their home in Gemmayze, and took little Alexandra away from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past year was the most difficult in our entire lives,\u201d Naggear told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe miss her all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1480987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figure id=\"attachment_1480987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480987\" style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1480987 size-arc-image-770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Alexandra-Najjar-1-Courtesy-of-Paul-Naggear.jpg?w=643&amp;resize=643%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"1024\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1480987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE COPYRIGHT \/ AFP\/ Tracy, Paul and Alexandra Naggear [Courtesy of Paul Naggear]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p data-inc=\"7\">Paul and his wife Tracy have been extremely outspoken since the explosion, demanding a thorough investigation into how the explosive substances arrived into the capital\u2019s port, and which officials were responsible for not removing them for more than half a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, you wake up, you cry, then you\u2019re taken back to the reality that you have to fight for your daughter and the other victims.\u201d He said. \u201cWe haven\u2019t stopped since the funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are several committees formed by families who lost loved ones during the explosion that mostly campaign and pressure the authorities to stop stalling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the groups have lobbied state institutions to compensate families, and have rallied behind Judge Bitar. However, Naggear\u2019s is calling for an international investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracy and I first focused on awareness in the international community, but now we\u2019re pushing for international justice,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe anticipated that the criminals will protect themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A handful of civil society and human rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch, have called for an independent United Nations-mandated investigation, citing Lebanon\u2019s corrupt leadership and the fact that its judiciary is not administratively or financially independent from the government.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"8\">Victims\u2019 families have cooperated in calls for justice, most recently at the residence of caretaker Interior Minister Mohamad Fahmi, who refused to lift the immunity of General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Naggear and other families held white coffins to stage a mock funeral, but met a large group of security forces in riot gear. \u201cWe did this mock funeral to show the treason happening to us,\u201d Naggear said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to shun him (Fahmi) as much as possible, and the fact he had to escape with the security forces to a secure location like a rat was mission accomplished for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The activism is what keeps Paul and Tracy Naggear going, but it is exhausting on top of grieving the loss of Alexandra, and sometimes they simply burn out.<\/p>\n<p>The family is hopeful that the truth will be revealed and that justice served for all the victims \u2013 but not with Lebanon\u2019s traditional governing parties at the helm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are inhumane and illegitimate, and need to be treated as such,\u201d Naggear said.<\/p>\n<p data-inc=\"9\">\u201cAs you can see, the path to justice isn\u2019t easy, and so we pushing for an international fact-finding mission adopted by the UN.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-source\">SOURCE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/8\/4\/families-of-beirut-blast-child-victims-demand-justice-a-year-on\">AL JAZEERA<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year after deadly explosion in Lebanese capital, grieving families who lost their children continue to seek justice. 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