Celine Haidar, a midfielder for Beirut Football Academy (BFA) who was set to captain the team this year, is the latest athlete to become a casualty of Israeli attacks.

This weekend, Haidar was seriously wounded from an Israeli strike on her home in Beirut’s southern suburb of Shiyah. She is now in a medically induced coma in Beirut’s Saint-Georges Hospital.

“The strike was close and she was hit in the head,” her mother Sanaa Sharhour told AFP news agency. “My daughter has a brain haemorrhage, her skull is cracked.”

“She dreamt of competing abroad. She said she wanted to be like (Cristiano) Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi… She wanted to be a star and for everyone to talk about her,” Sharhour said.

“Now everyone is talking about her because she was wounded in a war that she has nothing to do with…They killed her dream.”