Many Palestinians of those who lived in Gaza did not realize what was going on at 11:30 pm on the 7th of January 2008. The Israeli warplanes began pounding everywhere around them with missiles, killing everyone, turning their bodies to pieces, and watering the ground with their blood. Families at home feared for their children who are in schools, colleges, universities, and workplaces. However, the contacts rarely helped people to check on one another.

There, in the Vocational Training Center for UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, sited in "the universities" street, the students came out horrified after the Department decided to suspend study. They came out to wait for the bus to take them to their residence places in the south and in the north, but the occupation forces were faster than the buses when they lunched their missiles at them and the shrapnel killed many of them while others were injured.

Baha’ Abu Zuhry — 19 years — was martyred away from his family who are in the southernmost sector in Rafah. The scene of their martyrdom was tragic to the hearts of their families. His family felt comfortable because their son resides in an institution affiliated to the Relief Agency of the United Nations and it is difficult for the Israeli forces to get there. But, anyplace inside Gaza was not safe or away from the Israeli bombs and missiles as John King, the director of the Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, said.

The mother of Baha' said: "The circumstances around us were very difficult because bombing was everywhere in Rafah and I thought that the bombardment was targeting our city only, but I did not realize that it killed my son but at five pm when he did not come from college. My sister came to tell me that Baha’ has been injured, but inside me, I realized that he was martyred. Allah is Sufficient for us, and how fine a trustee He is."

Baha’ was outstanding student. He studied a full term in the engineering college, but he left college because of its high expenses and his family could not endure the expenses because he had another two sisters in college. He joined the Faculty of vocational training where education was free of charge because he was a refugee. He dreamt of studying aeronautical engineering outside Gaza, but to relieve his father from the burden of expenses, he preferred to join the free school of the agency, then directly go to university study.

Baha’ was suppose to be graduated that year and the cause of going to college at that day was to submit his research papers because he was passionate with knowledge, reading, and education. His uncle Samy always urged him to study journalism because of his intensive love for the literary writing. Despite Baha’s quiet personality, he was keen to make social relations; he had more than 18 friends who used to visit him weekly at his home, every Thursday.

Baha’ left great memories for his mother and father to help them to overcome their pain. They still remember him preparing food by himself to present it to them then they sit together chatting and laughing. However, those moments of warm were absent when Baha’ was martyred. His mother said: "A month before his death, Baha’ became taciturn and he used to come at night to sit with me and with his father looking at us for a long time as if he was saying goodbye. I remember when he told me that there is a strange sense possessed him." After his death, his mother realized that the sense he felt was the sense of death.