Amna Ashraf Al-Mufti
The child, Amna Al-Mufti, was moving, carrying a bottle of water, when an Israeli plane surprised her with a direct missile, turning her life into immediate death in an instant.
The Zionist entity kills in cold blood the child for the crime of trying to fill a drinking water container for her injured father.
She went out to get a drink of water, but the occupation fired a missile at her and she burned until she was charred.
She wished she could drink, so they turned her into a lump of coal! The little girl, Amna Al-Mufti, went out to get a drink of water for herself and her family at the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital, north of Gaza, but the occupation had a different opinion. They fired a missile at her, and she burned until she was charred.
She wasn't carrying a weapon; she was carrying a bottle of water. A thirsty child was killed in front of the eyes of the world.
Biography
In a small neighbourhood in northern Gaza, Palestinian child Amna Ashraf Abdullah Al-Mufti did not know that her final steps towards life would lead her to death.
Thirsty, afraid, she was looking for a drink of water for herself and her family amid a stifling siege and relentless fire. She held an empty bottle in her hand and headed towards the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only place that might give her hope for some water, but the water did not arrive, the bottle did not arrive, only the fire arrived.
A treacherous missile launched by an occupation plane ended a safe life, leaving only a charred mass of coal. It was not carrying a weapon, it was not threatening anyone, it was only carrying a small water bottle.
Childhood stolen in an instant.
«Amna» was not known in her life as a leader, activist, or fighter, but rather as a simple child searching for the simplest necessities of survival (water). She dreamed of returning to her family with the bottle full, perhaps to draw a small smile on the faces of a thirsty person in her dilapidated house, but the scene turned into a tragedy; A child turned in seconds into a charred corpse, a witness to the brutality of the occupation and the silence of the world.
A cry without echo
Survivors' testimonies say that the entire neighbourhood was shocked by the scene, and that everyone could not hold back their tears when they saw the bottle next to Amna's body, which was not filled with water, but with tears.
On social media, her photos turned into a new icon of Gaza's suffering, and one of them wrote: "What crime did a child searching for water commit?
More than one individual story
The story of «Amana» is not just passing news, but a mirror of the suffering of thousands of Palestinian children living under bombing and deprivation. Dozens of similar stories are written every day, and no one hears them.
The silence of the world
«The world's hand repents» This is what an angry activist wrote, commenting: How can the international community remain silent in the face of a scene like this? How can the killing of a thirsty child while searching for water be justified? All this happens while speeches are given, conferences are held, and slogans about human rights are raised.
An ending that is not worthy of life
Amna Ashraf Abdullah Al-Mufti, a few-year-old girl, was not given the opportunity to grow up, to go to school, to dream of a better future. She turned into «a piece of coal» as her shocked family described it, while her bottle remained a witness to a crime that was not erased from Gaza's memory.
Amna's story is a story of thirst that turned into fire, a simple dream that ended in rubble, and a small voice choked by missiles. It is an open wound in the body of Palestine, and a message to a world that seems to have lost its humanity.
Pleas of Surviving Relatives and Family if any
The Israeli occupation army killed the mother and brother of the child Mufti on May 17, 2025, while they were trying to flee.
Her father was unable to bury her due to his serious injury, but neighbours and friends took care of it.
The grieving father said in her farewell: “These are the flowers of my life, and they snatched them from me”.