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Name of Victim: Hammad Silmiyah 

Age: 13 years old
Sex: male
Date of Injury or Death: 14 February 2009
Place of Injury or Death: Northeast Gaza, about 500 meters from the border with Israel.
Weapon Type - An Israeli military jeep patrolling the border opened fire on him and his teenage friends.
Details of the Last Hours: "It was Saturday morning and Hammad woke up at six," says Hammad's aunt Jomaia, 40. "He left with his brother and a couple of young friends to graze the animals. At around ten in the morning Hammad was preparing some breakfast in the field like he always did. An Israeli military vehicle fired at them and shot him in the head." 

Hammad had left school just a few months ago to work full-time as a shepherd and help his family. "I tried to force him to go back to school but all he cared about was working with the goats and riding his donkey," says Jomaia. 

"He was so good with animals. Whenever he came home from school, he'd throw his bag in the house and run to be with the animals. The night before Hammad was killed I dreamt about a wedding ceremony, which in our culture is a bad omen. When they told me Hammad was injured I knew that he had been killed because I had seen him as a bridegroom in my dream." 

- Belongings (photos, videos, diaries …): The only remaining photograph of him was taken when he was seven years old. More recent photographs of him were lost in the rubble of his home.

Source:

(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10373.shtml ) - Electronic Intifada.

 
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