Palestinian Holocaust Museum
 

Name of the Victim: Rola Fayiz Nour Salhah

Age: One year.
Gender: Female.
Date of Injury or Death: 9/1/2009
Place of Injury or Death: Inside her house in Bayt Lahya project — in the North of Gaza Strip.
Cause of Injury or Death: F16 bombard
The Story of Martyrdom:

When an Israeli F16 warplane launched a missile at the house of Fayiz Salhah and turned it into remains, and rubble, Rola was in her mother's lab and could not get out quickly from the house because her age did not exceed one year. She could not run for her life, therefore, her mother carried her, but could not get out either. As soon as the mother opened the door of her house, the shrapnel tore their bodies in addition to Baha'uddin, Diya'uddin, and Rana apart and their bodies were burnt out of the burning fire.

Before her martyrdom, Rola did not speak much but "Papa". She used to utter it with her innocent childish way. Two days before her martyrdom, she ran at her father, threw herself on his chest, and kissed him as if she was saying goodbye. Her father confirmed that when she heard his voice, she used to come running at him to meet him at the door. He said: "Every time she called me, I felt it was the first. She used to kiss me as if I am coming from a long journey. I wondered at her behaviors but I did not realize that she was seeing me off but after she had passed away."

As she saw off her father, she did with her siblings in the same way. When she felt sleepy, she would bring her pillow, pull her mattress with her little hand, and put them nearby one of her siblings. She would sit and stretch her hand to pull the cover over her little body gently and fell asleep beside the nearest of her siblings. She was an innocent child who did not know anything of this world but love to all the people who were around her. She was interpreting it with her childish way.

 
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