Pleas of surviving relatives: His father, Mohammed al-Attar, gave heart-wrenching testimony to Middle East Eye just three months after the bombing. He described the joy of recently enrolling his daughter Amira in first grade, Islam’s excitement at escorting her to school, and the plans the family had been making for the coming school year. He recounted how everything was destroyed “much faster” than their dreams, saying: “We had plans for the month when the kids would start school. But here I am, sitting alone with my only remaining child in my mother’s home. Everything happened so quickly that I felt I was dreaming. I cannot believe that I lost all four of them in a single day.”