The mother of Ibrahim `Aql felt worry about the fate of her children during wartime. She saw a dream in which a stranger cut four branches from the olive tree. That tree was one of the most beautiful olive trees in the surrounding lands and fields. When she asked him why did you cut it, he answered: "The person who dies, his leave must fall." Then she realized that those leaves denoted some dead people from her family, but she did not count them. Among them there was her son at whom she ran before he would fall on the ground, carried him between her arms, wiped over his head, and closed his eyes saying: "O Allah, reward me for my affliction and give me something better than it in exchange for it." That vision became true at the beginning of the land operation "The melted bullets" on Gaza Strip, specifically on the 5th of January.

On the 5th of January, the house of Ruhy `Aql, in the middle of Gaza Strip, was one of the houses that suffered the Israeli shells. The house was not filled with neither fighters nor resistants, but there were only civilians who thought that those walls would protect them. However, the shells of the Israeli tanks showered the houses, causing the house to collapse and killed everyone was there. In that time, Ibrahim was in the house of his brother and when he heard that his house was destroyed, he ran quickly to save his family but the neighbors told him to wait until the bombard abates and the aftermath of the smoke wanes. Ibrahim took shield in a wall of a small shop that stood a witness at the collapse of his house. However, with the renewal of the bombard at the house, one of the shrapnel hit him in the head causing him to die at once.

The seven-years-old Ibrahim was a student in the first grade of secondary school, but he was brave and popular by all. His colleagues missed him at school, even his school masters missed him and wept at his death because of his good morals and behaviors. Yesterday, the mothers of his colleagues paid a visit to Ibrahim's mother to describe to her the conditions of their children after Ibrahim's martyrdom. One of them said that her son `Aly was attached a lot with Ibrahim and after his martyrdom, he was loyal to his memory. He used to pay visits to Ibrahim's grave every Thursday, sit with him for hours, and tell him what was going on with his life as he used to do during his lifetime.

His mother was sitting on the remnants of her wrecked house suppressing her heart groans. His memory was still before her eyes. Yesterday, he was whispering in her ears at night to sit by his side at the dinner table which he prepared by himself in order to whet his appetite. She said with her eyes full of tears: "He was kind, Merciful, and spoon-fed. Ibrahim was not the first child that the mother lost but the second, however, the death of Ibrahim had a great effect on her heart and left her sad.

As Ibrahim helped his mother, attached to her, and loved her, he also was helpful to his father and the shelter to which he resorted when he was sick or unable to meet the basic needs of the house. Many times he left his father to have rest and went outside to get the needs of his family.

The greatest sorrow and sadness that Ibrahim left was in the heart of his grandmother. As soon as she heard the news of his martyrdom, she entered into a coma and stayed in the hospital for a week suffering brain clot that caused her to pass away. His mother said: "His grandmother did not stand being alone after Ibrahim had left. He was her friend and the son whom she did not beget. When Ibrahim woke up in the morning, he went to her, kissed her hand and forehead, made her breakfast, and took care of her all day long. When he passed away, she refused to go on with her life but she passed away rightly after him.

His mother tried to convince him to enter the industrial school and leave the academic school because he did not get high marks. She wanted him to have handicraft skills to take as future profession, but the hopes of Ibrahim were aiming at the college study. In the first term he exerted many efforts to make his dreams come true and get into college but the Israeli shrapnel prevented him to achieve his dreams.