Palestinian Holocaust Museum
 

Name of the Victim: Ikram Anwar Ba`lushah

Age: 15 years old.
Gender: Female.
The Date of Injury or Death: 28\12\2008
The Place of Injury or Death: Insider her house in Jabalia Camp — North of Gaza Strip.
The Cause of Injury or Death: The demolition of her house while they were asleep during an air raid on `Imad `Aql’s masjid next to their house.
The Story of Martyrdom:

Along with her sisters, Ikram was killed. They had their last words and laughs then they closed their eyes to sleep, but they did not open them again. The missile that fell on `Imad `Aql’s Masjid leveled their house to the ground, burying their bodies under a pile of pieces covered with blood and thus Ikram and her four sisters were killed.

Ikram did not go exceed fifteen years old, but with her wit, activity, and her social interaction with others she looked older. At home, she was obedient to anyone asks for help, did not delay her housework, was kind hearted, and pretty.

Her mother said about her scientific level: “She loved school so much and cared for her lessons, but her scientific level was “very good” and I always pushed her to exert more efforts sometimes with exhortation and sometime with threatening.

Ikram was an obedient girl to her mother, she bore the responsibility of earning money and meeting the needs of her little sisters. She took the responsibility of selling and marketing the cookies that her mother used to bake. She would take it to school to offer it politely to her teachers and deliver it to the customers who ask for it. She was the right hand of her mother, but now her mother misses her and misses the desire to go back to work after the departure of her first assistant.

Ikram was like any other girl in her age. The details of her life ranged between fun and play, the commitment to fulfill her school duties, and her housework obligations towards her parents and siblings. She was so beloved among her colleagues because she was so funny and treated all the people kindly.
She loved drawing and used to draw with her little fingers and color her drawings with rainbow colors. She wished to grow up as an artist. As for her dreams, she wished to have the rights stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She dreamt to complete her college education and get a suitable job to help her parents to improve their standard of living, but she had left, leaving her parents in pain that cannot be ceased by the passage of time.

 
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