TYRE, Lebanon April 12 (Reuters) - Wrapped in bloodied bandages, Aline Saeed, seven, barely survived the ​Israeli strike on her home in south Lebanon last week. She was there to bury her father as hopes of ‌a truce spread across the region, but a new strike killed her infant sister and other relatives.

The strike on the Saeed family home in the village of Srifa took place on Wednesday, the first day of a U.S.-Iran ceasefire that many in Lebanon hoped would apply to their country, too. Instead, Israeli strikes killed more than 350 across Lebanon ​and left the Saeed family with four more relatives to bury.

“They said it was a ceasefire. Like all these people, we went ​up to the village. We went to the casket to read the prayers and walk home… suddenly we felt ⁠like a storm was landing right on us,” said Nasser Saeed, Aline’s 64-year-old grandfather, who also survived.

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    The double tap strike is deliberately employed to murder medical staff and to punish the enemy for showing compasion.

    It is paired with the Hannibal Directive, as a proscription to ally and adversary alike to offer no quarter nor to expect it be given.

    It is the policy of genocide, imposed by a leadership that can only see victory in terms of annihilation.