Palestinian Holocaust Museum
 

Name of Victim: Baha'u-Din Fayiz Nour Salhah

Age: Four years old.
Gender: Male.
Date of Injury or Death: 9/1/2009
Place of Injury or Death: Inside his house in Bayt Lahya project —in the North of Gaza Strip.
Cause of Injury or Death: F16 bombard
The Story of Martyrdom:

Salha's family realized that they will leave soon, but no one of them ever dared to speak about what he or she has seen to the people around them. The father saw a vision of leaving his home but he did not expect that it would be quickly. He told his wife about the vision but he did not imagine to leave her. On the other hand, she told him about the white ghosts which chased her in the house but he did not know neither about the time to leave nor its circumstances.

At the beginning of the air bombard on the 27th of December 2008, Baha' had a feeling that he will die soon. He told his father that the bombing is approaching but his father persuaded him that the loud sound was only an emptiness of air. Baha' insisted that the sound was an air strike and it was as Baha' said. He was grabbing his mother's hand at the door when he was getting away, but a missile launched from a warplane tore him, his mother, and siblings apart. Only Nour and his two sisters survived to suffer the bitterness of pain and separation.

His father said: Baha'u-Din was so special because of his qualities and he was very genius. If he saw someone for the first time, he would recognize him even if he was absent for years or came to him disguised in any form. He was bold, in the limits of his childhood, and imitated everything he saw precisely.

If we want to speak about Baha'uddin, we will not speak only about his four years old, but we need to speak more than that because the details of his life are full of events. Baha' was so beloved to his father whom he accompanied wherever he went or stayed.He was so close to the heart of his father. After his martyrdom, his friends could not believe that he was gone for good. One day, one of them entered the house of Baha' and called loudly by his voice "Baha' .. Baha'" Unfortunately, Baha' did not answer, but the neighbor answered him that Baha' is no longer in this world and he was martyred. Thereupon, the eyes of that young kind were full of tears as well as the eyes of his friends who accompanied him out of sorrow to the memory of their late friend. That boy who was attached to Baha' returned home and did not get out for a week during which he stayed sick; crying for Baha'. Today, Baha's father tries to find that faithful friend to hug him and give him something as he used to do with Baha', but he does not know where to find him.

His wish was to start memorizing the Qur'an until he memorizes it all but he could not do that because he was still too young and did not know how to read or write. Despite his father's attempts to take him to the places where the Qur'an is memorized, but the answer was the same; he was still too young to memorize it.

 
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