in Al -Maghazi camp middle Gaza StripWhere the rubble suffers silence, and tears do not dry out the faces of mothers, the names of martyrs children are hesitant to the tongues of the population every morning. There, there is no time to surprise, death comes without an appointment, and sometimes for no reason. Among these stories, the story of the child, Yusuf, the return of God, who was kidnapped by the occupation missile, highlights in a moment of joy that was waiting for the clothing of the feast, joy that turned into a funeral, and a smile that was suffocated under the dust.
A 18 -year -old waiting fruit
She did not witness an ordinary child for her mother, Mona, the return of God, but rather a miracle after a waiting 18 -year -old marriage without children. “I have changed my life … after the years of deprivation, God blessed me with it. I was introducing her to the best schools, and she was one of the first, loved by her teachers and everyone who knew her.”
Mona has been working widowed since she lost her husband before the war on Gaza erupted. During the war, he was displaced with her daughter, testifying to one of the displacement tents in Gaza, where the cold, darkness and fear.
With the advent of Eid Al -Fitr, Shahd wished a new dress like the rest of the world. Despite the misery, the heart of a childish witnessed remains between the alleys with the children of neighbors. A few minutes before her martyrdom, she went to buy Eid cakes, but “a martyr returned to me with the clothes of the feast itself, in the clothes of the joy that became our palm,” she added. An Israeli reconnaissance plane launched a missile at the gathering of children, among them, which witnessed, to turn the moment into a massacre that killed 16 children, including those who were laughing, having fun and drawing on his face the dream of Eid.
The last farewell
Mona remembers the last day as a continuous nightmare, endless: “There was something strange in her heart, as if she knew. Mona still holds the Eid dress that I bought to witness. She says that she is now hanging next to her daughter’s pictures, but he does not have the smell of joy, but rather the smell of blood.
In the wake of the massacre, it was released Amnesty International A statement condemned the Israeli bombing, considering that what happened in the Maghazi camp “may rise to a war crime.” The organization said that “the air strike was carried out without discrimination and randomly in a civil population area, which constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law,” and demanded that an urgent international investigation be opened in the crime and the accountability of those responsible.