Palestinian Holocaust Museum
 

Name of Victim: Ahmad Riyad As-Sinwar

Age: Three years old.
Gender: Male.
Date of Injury or Death: 27/12/2008
Place of Injury or Death: Near his home in Ar-Rimal neighborhood —Gaza City.
Cause of Injury or Death: Israeli reconnaissance warplane bombard.
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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