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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Zena Al Tahhan, Maram Humaid

The long search for a daughter in the wake of Sabra and Shatila

Every year, Rehab Kanaan (centre) lights candles in memory of the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacre [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]

Beirut, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip – Every year on September 16, Rehab Kanaan lights candles in an open court in the centre of Gaza city, in memory of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, and her son and the other members of her family who were killed.

Kanaan was born in 1954 in Lebanon, where her family took refuge after fleeing the city of Safad during the 1948 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced out of their homes after the establishment of Israel.

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