| The Story of
Martyrdom:
From the skyscrapers of Shaykh Zayid, Khalid Al-Kahlut
came out with his family to his relatives in Bayt Lahya
project to seek security in the times of the continuous
Israeli war against the besieged Strip. His uncle's house
was the shelter for Khalid, his six children, and his sick
wife. In his uncle's, the electricity was off as well as the
cooking gas and no one knew when they will be back on. The
numbers of refugees in the house were increasing with the
approach of the occupation forces closer and closer toward
the inhabited area.
That difficult situation urged him to go out with his
children for a few hours to his workplace in Al-`Alamy pump
in the town to change the view. They did not take much time
and soon they came back. The father performed ablution and
offered two Rak`ahs, Tawfiq went out to the street to play
with the neighbors, and Muhammad and Habib walked in
streets. The mother asked the father to take the loaves
which she kneaded but could not bake to the bakery.
At that time, Muhammad was in the company of Habib to
ease the pains of war that bothered him which his narrow
minded did not understand fully, because he suffered from
small mental debility. When he saw his father and his
brother going out to the bakery, he went with them. Habib
insisted to accompany him, but he stopped him in the
beginning out of fear, then he agreed out of pity and
wishing to see him smiling instead of the scowl that he
appeared on his face. When the father and his sons were
coming from the bakery, an Israeli reconnaissance plane
launched a missile against their car causing them to die at
once.
Muhammad was the eldest kid, dutifully, took care of his
siblings when his father was out, and met the house needs of
his mother from the supermarket. He was so kind as his
mother and did not get bothered by anyone and did not bother
anyone. He was prepotent at school, but was very shy and
introvert to some extent. His lessons and study were his
main concern. His mother said: "Muhammad was in the
first secondary grade, prepotent in his studies, very
obedient, Polite, and sane."
His science teacher at Abu `Ubaydah Ibn Al-Jarrah's
School suffered a lot for missing him because he always
accompanied him from school home. He loved Muhammad because
of his knowledge and ethics and always advised him to be
social and not introvert to benefit from others and expand
his knowledge.
Muhammad's dreams were not impossible; they were raging
between finishing high school and studying computer
sciences. He dreamt of graduating from the department of
Computer Engineering to get a suitable job to improve his
difficult living conditions of his family, but perhaps
Israel thought that simple dream was too much for him and
did not give him time to achieve it.
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