Ayah Nizar Rayan wore her special dress and went upstairs to the roof to sit with her father, her siblings, her mother, and the wives of her father. The occupation warplanes did not leave that gathering in peace, but they fired several missiles at the four-floor house and leveled it with the ground, killing everyone was in the house, on its roof, or even around it, including Ayah the 12 years old girl.

Ayah and the rest of her family were transferred to the morgue of Al Shifa’ Hospital, and there, her brother's wife could not identify her in the beginning and thought that she was one of Nizar’s wives because she was wearing the dress and because her body looks bigger, but finally she recognized her innocent face.

Her brother Bilal says: "My sister Ayah was in primary six. She was an innocent child and full of energy, but the coward enemy took away her life. She wanted to be killed wearing her dress. She was chaste and looked older than she really was. May Allah bestow mercy on her soul!" His wife adds: "Everyone saw Ayah could not believe that she was twelve years old. In the last days, we used to notice that she had grown up and she cared a lot for herself."

Her brother Bilal says about the dreams of Ayah: "Like all my siblings, Ayah wished to join college and to study in the Islamic University in one of the Shari`ah branches." He adds: "Her grade was "very good" at school, but in the last two years, she got “Excellent” and was happy for that."

As for her manners, Bilal says: "She was very kind, affectionate, and followed the teachings of Islam in all her actions because she was totally convinced with her father as a model example. Ayah was the elder girl in the house after her sister Wala’ had been married. She loved to wear the Shar`y costumes and did not come out even to the courtyard of the house but after wearing the dress of Salah.” Ayah took care of her young siblings to the extent that As`ad and `A’ishah miss her more than they miss their mother. Bilal’s wife says about her caring to her young siblings: "She used to take care of her siblings like a mother and everyone entered the house saw how she cared a lot for the cleanliness and feeding of her young siblings and whenever she went they followed.”

However, Ayahs was only a child, liked to play, and waited impatiently that trip in which her father used to take the family one of his friends’ gardens. Ayah would ride the swing, run over the grass, and play with her siblings, but Ayah passed away and left some memories in the hearts and minds of her family that cannot be erased.