The seriously injured Lebanese footballer had to be anesthetized with drugs in Israel's attack

Beirut: Lebanon's 19-year-old international footballer Celine Haider was seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, and is still in a coma 5 days later.

Lebanon's Celine Haider Footballer

Midfielder Celine Haider, who has represented Lebanon's under-20 women's national team several times, was seriously injured in the head by an Israeli missile attack in the Al-Shiyah area, for which she had to be sedated. She is the latest soccer player to be affected by Israeli brutality.

When the Israeli air force attacked the southern suburbs of Beirut, she was in her native neighborhood of al-Shiyah. , footage of Celine Haider lying unconscious on the ground with a bloodied face caused a stir on Lebanese social media.

"She had a head injury from the attack, my daughter has suffered a brain hemorrhage, she has a fractured skull," mother Sana Shahroor told AFP. She asked to prepare her favorite dish but an hour later her friend called to say she was injured.

"My daughter is a hero, she will rise, she had a dream to compete abroad, she wanted to be like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, she wanted to be a star and everyone was talking about her," the mother said. Let me talk."

It should be noted that Celine Haider was also part of the national women's under-18 team that won the 2022 West Asian Football Federation Championship, was a pillar of her club Beirut Football Academy (BFA), and captained

In an update issued by his team on Tuesday, doctors said that Celine's condition is now stable and that the intracorneal bleeding has been stopped, while football fans from around the world have flocked to FIFA and UEFA. are demanding that Israel be barred from participating in international football.