On the occasion of International Women’s Day … “a monument to the first female martyr” in the Lebanese military corps



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On the occasion of International Women's Day ...

The Lebanese flag and the destroyed port of Beirut behind it

Today, Sunday, the Lebanese authorities unveiled the monument to the “first woman martyr in the military body”, the paramedic Sahar Fares, who died in the explosion in the port of Beirut last August.

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Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud said: “We decided to create a monument to the martyr Sahar Fares at the entrance to Beirut, so that all who enter it will know the story of this martyr.”

He added: “We are in the process of honoring all the martyrs.”

Sahar Fares was a member of the fire brigade in the port of Beirut, and she and her colleagues tried to extinguish the fire that broke out in District No. 12, before the big explosion in the port of Beirut, where a fire broke out that unleashed on August 4. Inside a warehouse in the port of Beirut, it exploded a large shipment of ammonium nitrate that had been stored there for years, killing more than 200 people, injuring thousands more and causing massive damage to buildings in the Lebanese capital.

Source: “RT +” LEBANON24



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