Like other inhabitants of the neighborhood, the family of martyr Isma`il Abu Sanimah evacuated setting to 'Mirage' area until things come right; yet they ever did!

Marzuqah `Attiyah Abu Sanimah, the martyr's mother, says that some days after evacuation Isma`il felt nostalgic and yearned to see his beloved sister and her children. So he went, on Sunday, January 4, 2009, to visit the family of his sister, whose house is just some hundred meters away from his family's house. Isma`il responded to the call of his predestined fate and set out to meet it. He asked his younger brother to accompany him, but he refused and hid himself in a neighbors' house.

Isma`il, on the other hand, spurred his horse to go faster so that he could see his sister and children and then go back home to see his friends. Yet, he could not! His mother narrates that on his way back from his sister's house, Isma`il was shot by an Israeli tank shell while he was doing nothing but riding his horse. She added that the tank shell shattered his entire body and burnt it.

She added that Isma`il bled for an hour till he lost a lot of blood and no one could rescue him, so he died on the ground along with his horse.

In the meanwhile, the Israeli occupying forces shot another tank shell into his sister's house, from where he had just come out, killing his nephew as well.

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Although Isma`il was a teenager, he was not as reckless as his fellows. He was calm, kind, lovable to all. He was preoccupied, on one hand, with his study at the school of industrial technicians to learn a craft that could enable him to improve the family's living conditions, and on the other hand, kept going to the mosque to listen to the Qur`an and religious lessons.

His friend `Abdullah Fawzy Abu Sanimah holds the same impression about Isma`il, adding that he was noble-minded and not aggressive to anybody. He had a good character and never said bad words even in his worst conditions.

According to his mother's narration, Isma`il always wished to be martyred. He used to talk to his mother about that and few days before his death, he told her that he wished to die for Allah's Cause and wanted his photo to be published at streets along with those of the martyr.

His last words to his mother were about their hard life at 'Al-Yahudyah' area on the borderlines with the occupiers.

He described it "our life is torture", because with every hostile raid the occupying forces take his father and elder brothers, devastating the house, terrifying children, questioning the all without a reason. Doing so, they imbue people's hearts with terror and pain. "All people at 'Al-Yahudyah' area are exposed to killing anytime without a guilt" said Isma`il who met the same fate.