The six-years-old Ala' responded to her father's command to stay at home. She tried to proceed with her daily life retinue normally during the directed war against Gaza, but the F-16 warplanes targeted her house, causing her to fall from the third floor to the ground floor under the rubble. The warplanes deprived her of sleep as well as of escaping with her father and siblings!

Ala' excelled in the first grade of primary school; her mother hoped that she will join school as the rest of her siblings to reach a remarkable academic rank as she planned for all of them. In that year, she got the highest marks to please her mother.

Ala' joined a center for memorizing the Noble Qur'an and memorized one part of it. Uncle Rida remembered how did Ala' resort to her grandmother's bosom in the last time she saw her and how did she wait her grandmother to finish cooking "Al-Farashih" (local meal); as she fed up eatting canned food with the family as she always used to do during the time of war.

Her uncle said about her: "Ala' was the most beautiful girl of Iyad's daughters because she was of brushed-yellow hair and of white skin."

He added: "Ala' suffered a lot in her young age because she had difficulty in speech."

Her uncle's wife said about her: She was so soft and I felt so sad for losing her."

Her uncle Rida said about her:" I used to tease her and say to her "dumb" to make her angry, but she would start talking to prove otherwise. She was not much talkative, and when you speak to her, she will answer you, but when you do not speak to her, she keeps silent."

Her uncle added: "I loved to see her wearing Hijab and holding the hand of her mother to go to the mosque. They were a perfect religious family and God honored them by making them die as martyrs; they deserve that great status." 

Her aunt Shirin said: "Their mother was so keen to give useful children to the society. Ala' was very quite and good. She loved that I visit them to play with my daughters." 

Ala' used to gather her cousins to go to school. She was the first to wear her uniform and go up to call everybody then gather them to school. She was the first one to offer lunch to her friends in the alley or on the house roof.

Her cousin said: "We used to play together, eat together, and go up to the roof to play with one another. We used to love each other."