Due to the Israeli bombing to the house of Ayman Siyam in Jabalia Camp, Tariq `Afanah asked his mother to take his brothers to a safe house. Tariq persisted many times then he came out with his colleagues to check the bombing site that was only few meters off his house. Minutes after leaving his house, the Israeli F-16 warplanes bombed the house of Ayman Siyam again, causing that boy along with dozens of people who gathered to watch the bombed house to fall as martyrs and injured. 

Tariq was a student in the second grade of secondary school, the scientific section. His mother said about him: “Tariq was the eldest of my children. He was like the father and the man of the house on whom we depended to the extent that I thought we burdened him with our requests and needs. He took charge in his twelfth year of age and he always cared for his brothers to the extent that now we feel inability to control them as well as fulfilling our needs.” 
As for her hopes for him, she said: “Eagerly I waited him to join high school then college in order to be proud of him in the engineering school and achieve our hopes. He told me that in case he did not get the qualifying marks for this college, he will join the faculty of science and exert a lot of efforts in the first term to transfer his papers to the engineering school.

Tariq lived very hard economic circumstances. Although he was in adolescence age, he was ascetic in life. His mother said: He did not rebel against our way of living, was content with the few sustenance, and I felt sorry for him because of those conditions.” He wished to have a computer as his mates. His mother promised him to buy him one as soon as they get their salary from the ministry of Social Affairs. She bought him that device and he was so happy for that, but he was not happy for long time. His mother said: “Whenever I look at this device, I felt pain because my son was not so happy with it for a long time.”

Tariq loved football as well as reading books. Everyday, he wished to improve his economic conditions and build a new house. He told his mother about his dream that he wants to work and be able to build a house composed of several floor for his siblings.