Aseel Mu`een Deib
Age: 10 years old
Gender: Female
Date of Death: January 6, 2009
Place of Death: Her family's house, near El-Fakhura school, Jibalia in northern Gaza Strip.
Cause of Death: Targeted Israeli shells hit her family house Family.
Details of the last hours:
The horrific accident that happened on 6 January at the last hours of the afternoon, in the court yard of Deibs'
house in Jibalia, forced the young kids inside the house to run out. They were shocked when saw the torn
bodies scattered every where. The mother, grandmother, uncle and his son were killed while they were
seeking warmth in a cold night of the winter under the non-stop war shells.
Aseel and her brothers were terrified when they looked at their mother's torn body; her mother had just
finished baking using carton and wood due to the circumstances of war and Gaza blockade. Aseel could do
nothing after she saw her mother dead. She had no time even to cry; minutes after she herself fell martyr as
Israeli troops fired a new targeted shell to their house yard to kill more. Aseel and all her brothers died at once.
Only her elder brother Bakr survived because he was not at home at that time; he was on his way to return the
oven to his aunt.
Other information:
Aseel was in the fourth grade; she was the most intelligent child in comparison with her brothers. She always
got "Excellent" grade .
Aseel had a very special relationship with her sister Alaa, according to what her brother Bakr says: "I
remembered every day when Alaa wake up at morning to comb Aseel's hair in a very special style and she
used to help her with her study"
He added," we used to gather every Friday but now I am all alone! They all have gone… Even Aseel's friends
Islam and Badria who used to pass every day to play with her they are no longer passing by. They were
shocked for losing Aseel".
Her Dreams: Aseel's parents were very proud of her and wished to see her a doctor. However Aseel dreamed
of that too, every day she came back from the school she start acting like teacher. She always asked her
brothers and her friends to sit around here to teach them.
Name of Victim: Ghanima Sultan Fawzi Halawa
Age: 11 years old
Sex: Female
Date of Injury or Death: January 9, 2009
Place of Injury or Death: Her family's house in Yafa Street.
Cause Injury or Death: A shell shot by the Israeli occupying forces.
Details of the Last Hours:The conditions in Gaza have terrified all people. But mother of martyr Ghanima
worried about an additional issue. The mother saw a vision about her mother in law asking her husband to
bring her some "kunafah" (a kind of sweets), and sought a special kind which is very slender and delicious.
That dream was interpreted that some member of the family will die, and it came true; it was her daughter,
Ghanima.
Like all inhabitants of the area, Ghanima's mother evacuated and left her house. Two days later she went back
home to wash clothes there and Ghanima followed her. When the mother finished washing she started to hang
the washing on the clothesline, while Ghanima stood by the door carrying her baby sister Sujoud whom she
loved very much, waiting for her mother to finish and go together to her grandfather's house.
Ghanima stayed at the door for some time looking to each part of the house as if she was saying farewell to it.
Her mother followed her and asked her to wait until they went out together. Yet Ghanima replied: "You are
worried about me mum! You took your fill of me today, and I gave you your kiss. Now I yearn to be
a martyr."
Ghanima's mother cried when she heard these words. After five minutes Ghanima's supplication was answered
as she was killed on Friday at the house door with an Israeli shell.
The mother says: "my daughter ran quickly to see what happened, then she came back shouting
'Ghanima got martyred, mum; her hand is cut off and her body burnt…but I don't see Sujoud'." The
shocked mother ran to the place of the crime, but she couldn't tolerate the monstrous scene and fainted.
Other Information: Ghanima fell martyr, while her beloved sister who was just a baby was thrown meters
away by force of strike and splinters penetrated her body, and a surgical operation will be done for her within a
month.
Ghanima's mother says: "As soon as I began washing the clothes Ghanima asked me to give her a
shower, and I did. Then she asked me to style her hair. It was strange of her as she used to style it
herself, and she said to me 'by Allah, mum, I like you style my hair for me today', so I did it. Then
she decided to change her clothes which she had just put on, saying 'I want to wear the clothes of
the `Eid (festival)'. I refused because there was no time for that. Then I hurriedly sympathized
with her and told her to wear whatever she liked. She wore a jeans and a woolen blouse and kissed
me."
Ghanima was the third one among Sultan's seven children; however she was the most beloved by her mother,
who says: "she was very intelligent, and unlike her sisters she used to obey me at once."
Her Dreams: Like most of Gaza girls, Ghanima dreamt to build a beautiful house with her husband where she
would bring up her children after completing her studies.
Name of Victim: Mustafa Mu`een Deib
Age: 13 years old
Sex: male
Date of Injury or Death: January 6, 2009
Place of Injury or Death: His family's house, near El-Fakhura school, Jibalia in northern Gaza Strip
Cause Injury or Death:Israeli shells aimed at the house of the Deib Family.
Details of the Last Hours:Just before afternoon, January 6, 2009, Bakr Deib – 20 years old – asked his
brother Mustafa – 13 years old - to fetch some carton from the street for his mother to bake some bread,
amidst the hard times suffered in Gaza on the tenth day of the Israeli assault. Mustafa went to do what he was
asked to, but unusually he was late. This was because he and his fellows went to see the house of Abu `Askar,
which was bombarded the night before.
Then Mustafa went home carrying a small piece of carton and smiling he said to his mother and brother "I
haven't found more pieces". When his mother finished baking, Mustafa went to the second floor of the house
leaving his mother, grandmother, uncle and cousin in the front courtyard. Just a few seconds later the boy ran
down to find their bodies torn and covered in blood. A few minutes later a second shell killed Mustafa and his
brothers, who fell martyrs except for Bakr.
His father says: "Mustafa, my dear boy! I had great ambitions for him. I dreamt that he would travel
to his uncles in Germany to complete his study and acquire a high scientific degree."
The father adds: "Mustafa was a very joyful boy; he was kind hearted with a high sense of humor.
Everyone loved him and whenever we were invited to a wedding, Mustafa was specially invited in
person to add a cheerful atmosphere to the party. Whenever we had some visitors, they looked for
Mustafa to some joke with him."
Mustafa's fellows in the neighborhood always debated about who would accompany Mustafa wherever he went.
Since he was a student in third primary grade, Mustafa liked mimicking. His brother Bakr says that Mustafa
was in the second year in El-Fakhura prep school with cousin `Esam who was martyred with him. He adds: "I
loved Mustafa very much! He used to help me and whenever I needed something from the house he
brought it to me at work. All the family loved Mustafa; he was the sweet of our house."
As for Mustafa's relation with his mother, his aunt says: "He was the most obedient to his mother. She
said that he was always active and used to bring most of the house needs." Mustafa cared a lot for his
appearance, as his aunt remarks, and he liked to look his best, especially that he was the smartest and most
cheerful of his brothers.
Mustafa along with his cousin `Esam and his neighbor `Ahed Qidas fell martyrs, while the rest of their fellows
(Mu'ayyad, Hussein and Ashraf) are lamenting their beloved friends.
His brother Bakr says: "When I go to sleep, I remember the past days with Mustafa. We used to play
together and compete in writing games before we went to sleep. Now they are all dead and I am
alone without any of my brothers…Sufficient unto us is Allah! Most Excellent is He Whom we trust!"
Name of Victim: Hammad Silmiyah
Age: 13 years old
Sex: male
Date of Injury or Death: 14 February 2009
Place of Injury or Death: Northeast Gaza, about 500 meters from the border with Israel.
Weapon Type - An Israeli military jeep patrolling the border opened fire on him and his teenage friends.
Details of the Last Hours: "It was Saturday morning and Hammad woke up at six," says Hammad's aunt
Jomaia, 40. "He left with his brother and a couple of young friends to graze the animals. At around ten in the
morning Hammad was preparing some breakfast in the field like he always did. An Israeli military vehicle fired
at them and shot him in the head."
Hammad had left school just a few months ago to work full-time as a shepherd and help his family. "I tried to
force him to go back to school but all he cared about was working with the goats and riding his donkey," says
Jomaia.
"He was so good with animals. Whenever he came home from school, he'd throw his bag in the house and run
to be with the animals. The night before Hammad was killed I dreamt about a wedding ceremony, which in our
culture is a bad omen. When they told me Hammad was injured I knew that he had been killed because I had
seen him as a bridegroom in my dream."
- Belongings (photos, videos, diaries …): The only remaining photograph of him was taken when he was seven
years old. More recent photographs of him were lost in the rubble of his home.
Name of Victim: Isma`il Abdullah Abu Sanimah
Age: 15 years old
Sex: male
Date of Death: Sunday, January 4, 2009; at 6:45
Place of Death: An empty area near his family's house, in his way back from a visit to his sister.
Cause of Death: Killed by an Israeli tank shell.
Details of the last hours:
Like other inhabitants of the neighborhood, the family of martyr Isma`il Abu Sanimah evacuated setting to
'Mirage' area until things come right; yet they ever did!
Marzuqah `Attiyah Abu Sanimah, the martyr's mother, says that some days after evacuation Isma`il felt
nostalgic and yearned to see his beloved sister and her children. So he went, on Sunday, January 4, 2009, to
visit the family of his sister, whose house is just some hundred meters away from his family's house. Isma`il
responded to the call of his predestined fate and set out to meet it. He asked his younger brother to
accompany him, but he refused and hid himself in a neighbors' house.
Isma`il, on the other hand, spurred his horse to go faster so that he could see his sister and children and then
go back home to see his friends. Yet, he could not! His mother narrates that on his way back from his sister's
house, Isma`il was shot by an Israeli tank shell while he was doing nothing but riding his horse. She added
that the tank shell shattered his entire body and burnt it.
She added that Isma`il bled for an hour till he lost a lot of blood and no one could rescue him, so he died on
the ground along with his horse.
In the meanwhile, the Israeli occupying forces shot another tank shell into his sister's house, from where he
had just come out, killing his nephew as well.
Other Information:
Although Isma`il was a teenager, he was not as reckless as his fellows. He was calm, kind, lovable to all. He
was preoccupied, on one hand, with his study at the school of industrial technicians to learn a craft that could
enable him to improve the family's living conditions, and on the other hand, kept going to the mosque to listen
to the Qur`an and religious lessons.
His friend `Abdullah Fawzy Abu Sanimah holds the same impression about Isma`il, adding that he was noble-
minded and not aggressive to anybody. He had a good character and never said bad words even in his worst
conditions.
According to his mother's narration, Isma`il always wished to be martyred. He used to talk to his mother about
that and few days before his death, he told her that he wished to die for Allah's Cause and wanted his photo to
be published at streets along with those of the martyr.
His last words to his mother were about their hard life at 'Al-Yahudyah' area on the borderlines with the
occupiers.
He described it "our life is torture", because with every hostile raid the occupying forces take his father and
elder brothers, devastating the house, terrifying children, questioning the all without a reason. Doing so, they
imbue people's hearts with terror and pain. "All people at 'Al-Yahudyah' area are exposed to killing anytime
without a guilt" said Isma`il who met the same fate.
Name of Victim: Ghaida Abu Eisha
Age: 8 years old
Date of Death: Monday, January 5, 2009
Place of Death: Israeli missile struck her home in Shamali.
Details of the Last Hours: Ghaida was killed along with her parents and two brothers when an Israeli missile
struck her home.
Saber Abu Eisha, 49, the children’s uncle, said: "Ghaida was in the second grade at school. She was like any
little girl, she was pretty, she loved to play. Sometimes she was laughing, sometimes she was crying. She liked
to dress up, wearing a bride’s dress, showing off."
Name of Victim: Lina Abdul Moniem Hassan
Age: 9 years old
Date of murder: January 6, 2009
Place of murder: Next to a UN school, al-Fakhora, in Jabaliya, east of Gaza.
Weapon used: Killed by an Israeli shell which hit her while she was walking. Other Information: Lina's father
Abdul Moniem, 37, said: "She asked me for a shekel to go to the shops to buy something for her and her
brothers and sisters,"
"I heard the shell and I ran out. I saw her body lying on the ground … Was my daughter Hamas? Do you think
a 10-year-old even knows the difference between Hamas and Fatah?!"
Name of Victim: Abdul Rahim Abu Halima (wearing a yellow T-shirt in the
photo)
Age: 14 years old.
Date of murder: January 4,2009
Place of murder: Inside his home in Biet Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip
Weapon used: Israeli shells
Details of the last hours: Abdul Rahim was killed when his home was hit by a white phosphorous artillery
shell on 4 January. He died with two of his brothers, Zayed, eight, and Hamza, six, his sister Shahed, who was
15 months old, and their father Saad Allah, 45.
“He was a very active boy, a little bit nervous sometimes, but he was good at football,” said his brother
Mahmoud, 20. “I loved him so much. He was a wonderful boy.”
Name of Victim: Mohammad Shaqoura
Age: 9 years old.
Date of murder: January 6, 2009
Place of murder: At the UN school in Jabaliya – north of Gaza
Weapon used: Israeli shells
Details of the last hours: While Mohammad was playing marbles in the street outside with his friends in the
middle of the afternoon, an Israeli shelling hit him.
"I went to help the injured. I didn’t realize Mohammad was one of them," said Basim, Mohammad's father.
"I try to talk about him as much as possible with my other children. But it’s hard for them to understand."
Name of Victim’s Name: `Ali Kamal `Ali An-Nadr
Age: 10 years old
Gender: Male
Date of injury or death: January 10, 2009
Place of Death: Burj Es-Sultan, Jibalia.
Cause of injury or death: Killed by an Israeli tank shell.
Details of the last hours: Children of Gaza returned to school after the mid-year vacation, during which they
suffered the most hostile war in their history in the besieged strip. `Ali Kamal An-Nadr did not return join his
friends back to school because he was killed on January 10, 2009.
`Ali, a 10-year-old boy in the fifth year at 'An-Naqab' primary school in Jibalia, went with his elder brother
`Aamer -16 years old- to perform maghrib prayer at 'As-Sayyeda Khadijah' mosque. Before Burj Es-Sultan in
their way to the mosque, Israeli tank shells aimed at them, killing `Ali, `Aamer, and another two kids from the
same place; their torn body parts scattered over the ground before the imam starts started the prayer. Also In
addition, some people who were going to perform prayer were injured, including the father of `Ali's father and
`Aamer, who went to the mosque three minutes before his kids.
`Ali was the youngest son of Um `Abdullah; so he was much pampered. His mother says that `Ali's behavior
was not as usual on his last days. Since the beginning of the Israeli assault he used to feel terrified whenever
he heard the sound of the rockets and aircrafts. A week later he changed; he used to tell me news about the
martyrs and injured people in the neighborhood. When I Ali's mother asked him about his fears, he answered
"I am no longer fearful".
`Ali, the 10-year-old, was not an ordinary person. In the early days of the Israeli assault he was a real
humanitarian, but in his own style. He hurried to aid an injured person near his house and sought asking all the
house inhabitants to rescue him.
Um `Abdullah was not at home when her children were killed. She was in a visiting to her widowed sister when
her nephew whispering to his mother said that `Ali was injured. Um `Abdullah requested asked the boy to
explain but he denied what happened for fear that the shock would be over her endurance. she might not stand
the shock.
In a hurry going home she heard a woman telling that both sons of Abu `Abdullah An-Nadr were martyred. Um
`Abdullah got startled and asked the woman about it, but the woman also denied that the injured were Um
`Abdullah's sons. Even though, Um `Abdullah had a strong feeling that something bad has befallen them. She
walked home praying to Allah to give her patience if something bad happened to her children or house.
Other Information:
Being the youngest of Abu `Abdullah's sons, `Ali had great love for his elder brother `Aamer; they shared a lot
of things. `Ali used to fast in Ramadan since he was just 5 years old. During the Israeli assault he and his
brother `Aamer were preoccupied with providing their family with water and bread although security conditions
were not available every strict. They were keen on offering help to relatives and neighbors as if they were aid
official workers.
His sister Zakiyya, who study studies Arabic language at the Islamic College, says she felt that `Ali was striving
for Allah's sake, and when she noticed a change in his behavior towards the ideal, she felt that something
would befall him.
Um `Abdullah once had seven children, but now she lost the youngest two `Ali and `Aamer.
She directs is sending a message to the world: "We are all due to Allah, and we will all return to Him! I
narrate this to the world to awake their conscience ……. I ask them what guilt those children have
to be killed for in such a way"
She adds: "I pray to Allah in all prostrations prostration to shake the earth under Israelis' feet as
they killed our children and prevented deprived me and mothers in Gaza from the apple pupils of
our eyes and the joy of our hearts."
Name of Victim: Halimah Nizar Rayyan
Age: 5 years old
Date of injury or death: January 2, 2009
Place of injury or death: Jibalia in northern Gaza Strip
Cause of injury or death: Israeli air strikes
Details of the Last Hours: At around 2 am, while the martyr’s father was entering his house, Israeli f-16
aircrafts aimed at their house with a raid of 3 missiles. This totally destroyed the house that tumbled over the
heads of its inhabitants. The martyr – 5 years old – died with 13 members of the family that was comprised of
a father, four wives, and seven brother and sisters. Only three brothers, who were not at the house during the
raid, survived the bombing. The martyr and his family were picked up from under the rubble. Dr. Mu`awiya
Hassanein said that most of the family members were in fragments due to the violence of the raid. More than
ten thousand people joined the funeral of the martyr and his family the following day.
Other Information: At approximately 11:35 pm on the same day, Israeli aircraft raided the al-Khulafa
Mosque, which is located near Rayyans' house, destroying the mosque completely and damaging tens of
houses in the area, some for the second time on the same day.
Name of Victim: Amal Abed Rabbo
Age: two years old.
Date of murder: January 7,2009
Place of murder: Outside her family's five-storey house in the village of Izbit Abed Rabbo, in eastern Gaza.
Weapon used: shot dead by Israeli soldiers
Details of the last hours: Shortly after midday, soldiers from an Israeli tank ordered the family out of the
house, according to her father, Khalid, 30. There was gunfire from the tank and Amal and her sister Souad,
seven, were killed immediately. Another sister, Samar, four, was severely injured – she is now paralyzed in
hospital in Belgium. Later, the soldiers demolished the house.
Other Information: When she was shot, Amal was carrying her favourite toy, a brown bear, which still lay in
the ruins.
Name of Victim: Bilal Isa Al-Batran.
Age: 8 years old.
Date of murder: Friday , sunset time; January 16, 2009.
Place of murder: Their house at Al-Burayj R.C., middle of Gaza Strip.
Weapon used: A (Fire 2) Rocket, weighing 45 kg., capable of penetrating 8 cm. iron objects, fired at people.
Details of the last hours: Through their window, Bilal and his younger brother were pointing at Israeli
aircraft. Suddenly, the aircraft aimed at the window through which the kids were looking and bombed the
house, killing the kids, shattering their bodies on the tree braches outside their house. It took their family three
days to pick up the torn bodies of the two kids.
The mother (Manal, 35 years), the eldest daughter (Islam, 14 years), and the twin (Ihsan and Iman, 11 years)
fell martyr when they were in a hurry packing their suitcases to go to the house of their grandpa, Hassan Al-
Sha`rawi who lives in the same camp, for fear that they may be endangered under the Israeli offensive
assault.
In the meanwhile, baby `Abdel-Hady was in the reception hall, to the west south of the apartment, playing
with his toys. When he saw his father starting to perform maghrib (sunset) prayer in Al-masjid Al-Kabir
mosque, the baby crawled descending five stairs. The father had to carry the baby in order to take him to his
mother. But before he took one step into the room, a missile bombarded the house killing all its inhabitants,
save the father and his baby. The mother and the rest of her children were dead.
Hobbies: Playing football.
Dreams: Aspired to become a teacher.
Name of Victim: Do'ha al-Dayeh
Age: 6 years old
Date of Death: Tuesday, January 6 , 2009
Place of Death: Al Zeitoun neighborhood , east of Gaza city
Weapon Type: IOF warplane
Cause of Death: She was found dead, her head sticking out of the rubble that once was her home. Other
members of the family are missing. They are believed to be trapped under the debris.
Details of the Last Hours: At approximately 06:00 on Tuesday, an IOF warplane bombarded a 4-storey
house belonging to al-Dayeh family in Al Zeitoun neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. As a result, the father,
two of his children, one of his grandchildren and his daughter-in-law were killed.
Name of Victim: Al-Batran family (Death of six members of the family,
most of them children)
Age: Various Ages
Date of Death: Friday, January 16, 2009
Place of Death: Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza Strip.
Weapon Type: air strike on their home
Cause of Death: A mother and her five children from the Al-Batran family were killed Friday afternoon in an
Israeli air strike on their home in the Al-Bureij Refugee Camp in central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources identified the dead as 30-year-old Manal, and her children 12-year-old Wala, 8-
year-old Izz- Ad-Din, 10-year-old, Bilal, 11-year-old Islam, and seven-year-old Ihsan.
Name of Victim: Christine Turk
Age: 14 years old
Date of Death: Friday, January 2 , 2009
Place of Death: Shujaya neighborhood, east of Gaza
Cause of Death: Morning air strikes hit six houses near Christine's home making her live with non- stop
nightmares. Christine died apparently of a heart attack, terrified by an explosion which rocked her house.
Details of the Last Hours: The pictures show Palestinians attending the funeral of Christine Turk, in Deir al-
Laten Church in Gaza.
Name of Victim: Hamada Ibrahim Musabbeh
Age: 10 years old
Date of Death: Friday, December 2, 2008
Place of Death: Near his house, Al-Shoja'eya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City
Weapon Type: IOF tanks fired a number of shells at Palestinian houses in the neighborhood
Cause of Death: Died from his wounds
Details of the Last Hours: Hamada was seriously wounded; his feet were amputated. An hour later,
he was pronounced dead.
Name of Victim: Farah Al-Helo
Age: Two-year-old baby
Date of Death: Monday , January 5, 2009
Place of Death: Killed at her home in Al Zeitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Weapon Type: Killed along with her grandfather and uncle by an Israeli tank shell.
Cause of Death: Died as a result of gunshot wounds
Details of the Last Hours: At approximately 5:30 am, Israeli aircraft attacked the house of 50-yearold
Fuad al-Helo, in the neighborhood of al-Zeitoun, killing the man and a child from his family. The
child was identified as two-year-old Farah Emad al-Helo. Farah is seen in the photo as she lies
beside her uncle at the mortuary of Al-Shifa hospital, Gaza City.
Name: As- Samoni Family (Death of around 14 members of the family,
most of them women and children)
Age: Various ages
Date of Death: Monday, January 5, 2009
Place of Death: Al Zeitoun neighborhood , east of Gaza.
Weapon Type: Israeli tank shell
Cause of Death: An Israeli tank shell struck the family house in the early morning.
Details of the last hours: The survivors of As-Samoni family described what happened as a massacre. Israeli
soldiers locked 30 people from their family into one house. Many civilians, along with the family, were killed as
artillery shells bombed the house. The photos show the bodies of three children, siblings of the As-Samoni
family.
Name: Lama, Haya Talal Hamdan
Age: 4, and 11 years old
Date of Death: Tue, 30/12/2008
Place of Death: Biet Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip
Weapon Type: Air-to-ground missile
Details of the last hours: an Israeli drone plane fired a missile at a donkey cart the girls were riding in the
northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, killing them immediately.
Victim’s Name: As`ad Nizar Rayyan
Age: 2 years old
Sex: male
Date of injury or death: January 2, 2009
Place of injury or death: Jibalia in northern Gaza Strip
Cause of injury or death: Israeli air strikes
Details of the Last Hours: At around 2 am, while the martyr’s father was entering his house, Israeli f-16
aircrafts aimed at their house with a raid of 3 missiles. This totally destroyed the house that tumbled over the
heads of its inhabitants. The martyr – 2 years old – died with 13 members of the family that was comprised of
a father, four wives, and seven brother and sisters. Only three brothers, who were not at the house during the
raid, survived the bombing. The martyr and his family were picked up from under the rubble. Dr. Mu`awiya
Hassanein said that most of the family members were in fragments due to the violence of the raid. More than
ten thousand people joined the funeral of the martyr and his family the following day.
Name of Victim: Ebtihal Abdallah Keshko
Age: 7 years old
Date of Death: Sunday, December 28, 2008
Place of Death: Inside her home, al-Zaitun, central Gaza.
Weapon Type: Air-to-ground missile
Cause of Death: Killed in her home by rubble falling through the roof
Details of the Last Hours: During the course of the evening, Abdallah, the father, asked his daughter,
Ebtihal, to get some tea from the kitchen. He also asked Maysa (22), her sister–in–law, to come out of the
house and join the rest of the family outside. Almost as soon as Ebtihal entered the house it was hit by a
missile and was reduced to rubble. All the family members who remained outside sustained shrapnel wounds.
By 6:30 am the following morning, rescue workers had cleared all the rubble except that in the kitchen. The
family started clearing the kitchen and it was Abdallah who found a clump of hair covered in dust. He began to
dig frantically until he uncovered the body of his daughter, Ebtihal. At this point, he was no longer able to
continue and sat down amongst the rubble of his home and wept.
Name of Victim: Dena Ba'losha
Age: 4 years old
Date of Death: Mon., 29/12/2008
Place of Death: Inside her home, Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza.
Weapon Type: Air-to-ground missile.
Cause of Death: Killed in her home, as well as her other young 4 sisters, by rubble falling through the roof
Details of the last hours: Dena was inside her house with her other 4 young sisters: 8-year Jawaher, 12-
year Samer, 14-year Ekram, and 17-year Tahreer Anwar Ba'losha, when their house was hit by an air strike in
Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, while three other young children were killed when a bomb struck their
house in Rafah.
Name: Sodqi, Ahmed & Mohamed al-Absi
Age: 5, 14, 12 respectively
Date of Death: Mon., 29/12/2008
Place of Death: Inside their house, Rafah.
Weapon Type: Air-to-ground missile.
Details of the last hours: The three children were inside their family house in Rafah when an Israeli bomb
struck the house.
Name: Arafat Khawaja
Age:
Date of Death: Mon., 29/12/2008
Place of Death: A hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Weapon Type: Sniper.
Details of the last hours: Shocked by the horrible Israeli onslaught against Gazans, represented in the
massive wave of Israeli air strikes against the already starving, tired and wounded people in the sealed off
Strip which claimed the lives of hundreds of them and injured more than a thousand, Arafat took to the streets
of the West Bank city of Ramallah and joined a group of Palestinian protesters. The Israeli soldiers opened fire
at the protesters, killing the young Arafat.
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