On December 27, 2008, at 11:45 a.m., life in the Strip was going on as usual. Mothers were seeing their children off to schools, other mothers were receiving the children coming back from schools. Abdel Hameed was one of the pedestrians in the pathways in the vicinity of the security headquarters; the first target of the Israeli shelling during its war against Gaza.

A day before he was martyred, Abdel Hmeed told his mother he did not want to go to school but she insisted he did to prepare himself for the exams of the first semester. He bid his mother farewell kissing her hands and headed with his brother to school. His brother took a few steps back to pick up his school bag. Abdel Hameed kept walking. Their mother heard the bangs of explosions from time to time which had tremendously shaken the house. The shelling targeted a police station in Al Tuffah District. The father hurried out to ask Abdel Hameed to come back. Abdel Hameed heard his father and moved to go back, but he never did. A missile from an Israeli plane hit al Nour Society opposite his house and its shrapnelflew off everywhere. A shrapnel pierced Abdel hameed’s body which was hurled away by the severity of the explosion. It was too difficult for his family to find him. It took them two hours to finally find him in Al Shefa-a Hospital lying among the martyrs.

That very day – one day before his death- he wanted to go with his father to mosque to pray. His father used to perform his prayers at home as he got bored of the fiery orations on the pulpits. Abdel Hameed begged his father saying, “I beg you, father, not to stop going to mosque. Pay no heed to anybody. Mosques are Allah’s houses of worship. Hey are not the houses of a movement or an organization.”

Abdel Hameed’s countenances reveal innocent childishness. His slim body was well structured. There was tranquility in his eyes and agility in his body and kindness and love in his heart. His mother says, “ He was fond of his father and brothers.”

Although he was only 15 years old, and he had no wide experience, he was absolutely intelligent and academically a high achiever. His thoughts were of a 25 year old man. His scientific and living interests were of a 30 year old one. In brief, he was a man in the posture of a child.

Abdel Hameed was known for his love of reading informative books to extend his knowledge scope and deepen his thoughts. He was also known for his extraordinary love of the computer. He used to fix all the electric devices in the house when they broke down. He kept trying and trying until they start functioning again.

As regards his personal wishes, he hoped to finish his education soon and successfully complete his secondary education in order to fulfill his life dream of graduating from a university in the field of computer engineering which he loved. However, the dreams had been shattered with his loss of life.