| Details of Last Hours:
Uncle Rashad narrates how Sayyid (12 years) was killed. A warning missile was launched on the upper floor of Abu `Aysha' family. No one could hear the missile because the inhabitants of the upper floors had evacuated and settled on the ground floor (in underground rooms). They sought refuge against the shrapnel of the aimless missiles when they fall on the security services near their home.
`Amir, his children, and his wife as well as his brethren resorted to the ground floor, thinking that the ground floor is secure and no shrapnel can reach it. No longer had it been so but the jet fighters had targeted the house of Abu `Ayshas in particularly. A U39 Missile fell on the building, penetrated the roof and the floors of the three floors then exploded in the ground floor, precisely in the room where `Amir, his children: Muhammad, Sayyid, and Ghayda', and his wife and they all died.
No one was left from the family except Dalal, Who narrates the story of death and the aftermath of the missile explosion. Nothing stayed as it was; only dust, ash, and columns of smoke that go high when a cold winter aura blows.
Dalal's memories with As-Sayyid were different, he was one-year younger but he was her soul mate. In the morning, she goes with him to school and returns back with him too. He was in the first secondary grade and used to study hard to make the dream of his father, joining a college, come true.
His Dreams:
His dreams were simple and no more than the rights guaranteed by the international laws, agreements and conventions. He dreamt of completing his studies like any other kid. He also dreamt of waking up secure without fear, horror. He dreamt the sounds of bombing and bullets would vanish one day.
However, according to the occupation, the dreams of the Gazan children seem to be impossible.
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