| The Story of
Martyrdom:
The three-years-old Ahmad used to go in the afternoon to
the garden of his house where he played among its flowers
like a butterfly or a bird which was still learning how to
fly. He used also to bother the birds of his grandfather.
Despite the sound of shells and rockets explosion in the
first days of the war, he did not panic and insisted on
going to the garden to feed the chickens and pick the
Al-Jury flowers to give them to his mother.
Then he came down to the garden for few minutes, and
while he was standing at the door of the house watching the
war scene, rocket shrapnel that was launched by the Israeli
aircraft towards the civil defense center in Al-Zahra
residential City in the middle of Gaza Strip. The shrapnel
penetrated his skinny body causing him to fall dead once.
Ahmed was the fifth child of Riyad Al-Sinwar and the
youngest, therefore, he was spoon-fed. However, he forced
everyone to love him by his wit, intelligence, his sweet
words, beautiful appearance, and his perfect smile with
which he met everyone, whether a relative or a stranger.
His mother recalled, with tears of longing and nostalgia,
the memories of Ahmad saying: "Before his death, he was
playing computer games, but the power outage forced him to
get down to the garden of the house where his father and
grandfather were. When his father tried to keep him by his
side when he completed his task in the garden, he insisted
on going, and no one could prevent him. His elder sister,
Maryim accompanied him to play with him, but he did not go
back to the house and died as martyr."
Ahmed loved so much to sit before the computer searching
for new games to master without any help from anyone. He was
passionate about animation, as all children do, but his
passion pushed him to imitate them, especially "Tom and
Jerry." Ahmed loved the chickens which his grandfather
reared, and he was keen to feed and water them by his little
hand as well as taking care of them.
His mother wished that Ahmad would grow up to be a man to
complete his education, then become a good husband who had a
nice family. She wished to carry his kids as she used to do
with him but he passed away in early age.
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