The 244 Beirut Blast Victims, Remember Their Names
Updated, August 4th, 2022.
August 4th, 2021 might seem like any other regular summer day for anyone not Lebanese. For Lebanon, it marks one year after one of its darkest days in history: The Beirut Port Explosion .
One year since one of the most devastating non-nuclear explosions in history quaked Lebanon, crumbled its capital, killed over 230 people, and injured thousands.
One year since the excruciating catastrophe with no answers and no justice served. The perpetrators of this massive crime are still free.
Say their names because they are not just numbers in a list.
Say their names because every victim who was killed by the August 4 explosion was a precious human being, loving and honoring life, and dreaming of and planning for a future they would never get to live.
Fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters, wives, husbands, grandmothers, grandfathers... Every one of them meant the world for someone. Authoritative negligence killed them, snatching them away from their loved ones forever.
Their memories remain alive in the hearts of the Lebanese nation and so it shall be forever.
1 Abdel Salim El Ali Salem
2 Abdel Kader Bloso
3 Abdo Tanious Ata, 39 years old. He was found dead under his home 20 hours after the blast
4 Abdul Kader Ali Terras. He died later from his injuries
5 Ahmad Ibrahim Kaadan. He worked as a taxi driver
6 Ahmad Mohammad Ameira
7 Alexandra Najjar. She was 3 years young.
8 Ali Abbas Ismail
9 Ali Abdo Ayoub
10 Ali Hussein Zeineddine. He worked at a pizzeria
11 Ali Ibrahim Jassem Obeid
12 Ali Ismail El Sayed Chahata
13 Ali Kassem Sawan. He was among those missing
14 Ali Mehsen Mcheik. He was a port laborer, working overtime for an extra 50 cents
15 Alice Balian
16 Amin Zahed. He was found in the sea 30 hours after the explosion
17 Amina Salim Karbik
18 Anite Karabit Khatishikian
19 Antoine El Barmaki, an activist
20 Arlet Meglangit. She was a migrant house worker who came to Lebanon to afford her family back home a better life
21 Armand Tayan
22 Asmahan Miled Sarouf. The explosion reached her in her house, taking her life.