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Baby named after Raad rocket
18/07/2006 22:19 - (SA)
Beirut - Raad has been born - not the long-range missile which Hezbollah is firing at Israel, but a Lebanese baby boy whose mother wants to honour the Shi'ite militant group's showdown with the Jewish state.
After a difficult Caesarean delivery, Kawkab al-Akli gave birth to a boy at the Labib medical hospital in the southern coastal city of Sidon, said her husband, Mohammed al-Khaled.
"We had sought refuge at a school in Sidon after running away from our village of Marwahine in the south because a lot of people were killed in Israeli attacks," he said.
"This morning, my wife gave birth to a boy. She wanted to name him Raad to honour the resistance, Hezbollah and (its leader) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah," he said.
Still in pain, his wife, a mother of seven already, added: "I will also bring Raad 2 and Raad 3."
Since last week, Hezbollah has fired Iranian-made Raad missiles for the first time, extending the reach of the group up to the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
The missile attacks come amid a fierce Israeli aerial assault on Lebanon triggered by Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12. The battle has so far cost 230 lives in Lebanon, all but about two dozen of them civilians.
Hezbollah's relentless barrage of rocket fire on northern Israel has killed 12 civilians and wounded dozens more.
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