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Name of the Victim: Muhammad Khalid Al-Kahlut

Age: 16 years old.
Gender: Male.
Date of Injury or Death: 7/1/2009
Place of Injury or Death: In a car nearby a bakery in Al–`Alamy zone in Bayt Lahya Project —in the north of Gaza Strip.
Cause of Injury or Death: An Israeli reconnaissance warplane killed him when he was coming back home.
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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