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Name: Safa Ra'd Abu Saif |
| Age:
12 |
| Date of Death:
Sat., 1/3/2008 |
| Place of Death:
Inside her home, Jabaliya, northern Gaza. |
| Weapon Type: Sniper. |
| Cause of Death:
Gun shot in her chest. |
| Details of the last hours: |
While Safa was speaking with her uncle at around 4pm about the recent Israeli military operation that was done at east Jabaliya camp north Gaza strip, she heard a sound of reverberating bombing, she went to the window in order to discover what happened, but the Israeli snipers shot her. The gunshot penetrated both her chest and the door of the room, and blood poured from her chest and back. This resulted her in an internal bleeding for three hours, and the occupational military did not permit the ambulance to take Safa to the hospital till she died at 7pm.
"I put my hand on her chest to stop the streaming blood. She told me that she could not breathe, her body trembled and she closed her eyes," said Ra'd Abu Saif of his 12-year-old daughter Safa's last moments after she was shot by an Israeli sniper.
Safa was shot in the left side of her chest while she was inside her home in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. An ambulance tried to reach her but Israeli soldiers opened fire at it, wounding a paramedic and causing the tires to lose air, and so she bled to death three hours after she was wounded.
"Dad, I cannot breathe, all of you leave me please, let me breathe, enough, enough," were Safa's last words, according to her father. |
| Her Hobbies: |
"She likes sport like me; she is also a good volleyball player and used to participate in school championships," Safa's brother, Ali, lamented.
The family could not afford paints for Safa to practice her favorite hobby. "She used to [draw] landscapes with a pencil, [there was] no money for colors," Ali said. |
| Her Dreams: |
| She dreamed to be a lawyer. |
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