Pleas of surviving relatives: Nour’s death left her family shattered. Her uncle, Mohammed al-Kharma, spoke with grief about her final wishes. He explained that Nour had wanted to leave home and stay with relatives to escape the bombing, but her father urged her to remain at home. “It was her fate,” he said quietly, recalling the pain of watching her young life cut short the very next morning. Her mother, Jamalat, and sisters Ola and Huda survived the strike, but their survival is marked by unbearable loss. They had been in the kitchen preparing breakfast when the explosion hit. When the family searched through the rubble afterward, they found Nour’s school bag. Inside were her books and a diary in which she had written: “I want to make my family proud of me and I will get high grades by the will of Allah.” The words, now preserved by her relatives, serve as both a reminder of her dreams and a heartbreaking symbol of the future she never lived to see. Her family speaks of her as a determined and loving daughter, whose dream was to become a doctor. “She wanted to heal others,” her uncle said, “but we could not protect her.” The

Pleas of surviving relatives: The death of seven-year-old Yusof left his family devastated. His mother, Rawan, arrived at Nasser hospital in tears, desperately searching for her “handsome and curly-haired son.” A video of her pleas, asking if anyone had seen him, spread widely on social media, capturing the raw grief of a mother who had just lost her youngest child. His father, Mohamed, a radiographer at the same hospital, was working a 24-hour shift when he learned that his home had been bombed. He described how the last time he saw Yusof alive, the boy had run to the door to hug him tightly before he left for work, kissed him, and said goodbye after being given biscuits and bananas. Later that night, Mohamed found his son’s lifeless body in the hospital morgue, a moment he recalls with unbearable sorrow. Yusof’s siblings, 13-year-old Jury and nine-year-old Hamed, survived the strike but were left shaken. Jury suffered head injuries but, as her parents say, she is “improving.” Both children continue to grapple with the trauma of losing their little brother while narrowly surviving themselves. The family’s pleas are not only for their beloved son but also for an end to the suffering of children in

Pleas of surviving relatives: The family of Ismael Jamal at-Tubasi expressed their deep grief and outrage after his killing by armed settlers in their village of ar-Reehiyya. His parents said that Ismael was a young man full of life and dreams, who had harmed no one and whose only “crime” was living on his own land under occupation. His mother wept as she said, “They took my son with one bullet to the head. He was only 23, just beginning his life. What danger could he have been to them? The settlers come armed and protected, and we are left to bury our children.” Relatives pleaded for international protection, condemning the impunity given to armed settlers who, they said, attack their villages with the support of Israeli forces. His father stated, “Ismael was not carrying a weapon. He was not fighting. He was targeted simply because he was Palestinian. The world must see what is happening to our sons and daughters. We do not want more mothers to bury their children.”