Lebanese footballer Celine Haidar was about to make her dream of playing for the national women's team come true, but debris from an Israeli strike left the 19-year-old in a medically induced coma.
"She has nothing to do with the war, she's a football player. She has aspirations to continue on, to grow, to achieve.. They killed her dream," says her mother Sanaa Shahrour.
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