Sana'a Mehaidli (14 August 1968 – 9 April 1985) was a young Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) member who carried out a suicide attack against an Israeli convoy in Jezzine, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War, making her a Syrian hero.
Biography[]
Sana'a Mehaidli was born on 14 August 1968 in Anqoun, a village near the port of Sidon, Lebanon, sister to four brothers and one sister. She worked at a video store during her teenage years, and she joined the Jammoul-affiliated Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) in 1985 during the Lebanese Civil War. On 9 April 1985, she drove a Peugeot filled with explosives up to an Israeli convoy near Jezzine and detonated the bombs, killing two IDF soldiers and wounding twelve in the first instance of a female suicide bomber.