Three weeks after being injured by stray gunfire, the Lebanese girl Naya Hanna, age 7, passed away on Saturday night into Sunday morning.
While attending a summer camp in the town of Hadath, south of Beirut, on August 3, she was hit by a bullet that was fired during celebrations after the release of high school test results.
Hanna was brought to the hospital after passing out on the ground. According to Dr. Kamal Qansou, she had a gunshot lodged at the base of her skull.
In several Middle Eastern nations, celebratory shooting is widespread. It was described as a “very dangerous tradition that needs to end” by Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon, after it was revealed at least four children had been gravely injured there in a 48-hour span the previous year.
An uproar erupted in Lebanon after Hanna was shot earlier this month.
Abbas Halabi, the interim education minister, denounced the “recklessness that turned into a heinous crime” the day after she was shot.
He urged the military and security agencies to hunt down the shooters and hand them over to the courts so they might serve as an “example to others.”
Halabi stated that we must “stop this senseless habit that is spreading in our society.”
Prior to her terrible passing, Hanna was hospitalised, but her parents and other family members clung to hope. The family released a statement in which they said, “Naya is a strong kid, and she is still struggling to come back to us.
George Aoun, the mayor of Hadath, stated at the time that he was hoping for Hanna to experience “divine mercy” and regain consciousness.
He continued, “I take this as an opportunity to appeal to the conscience of every person in Lebanon to cease shooting shots on [celebratory] occasions, as stray bullets murder innocent people who have decided to stay in Lebanon.
