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Aseel Mu`een Deib

Age: 10 years old

Gender: Female
Date of Death: January 6, 2009
Place of Death: Her family's house, near El-Fakhura school, Jibalia in northern Gaza Strip.
Cause of Death: Targeted Israeli shells hit her family house Family.
Details of the last hours:
The horrific accident that happened on 6 January at the last hours of the afternoon, in the court yard of Deibs' house in Jibalia, forced the young kids inside the house to run out. They were shocked when saw the torn bodies scattered every where.  The mother, grandmother, uncle and his son were killed while they were seeking warmth in a cold night of the winter under the non-stop war shells.

Aseel and her brothers were terrified when they looked at their mother's torn body; her mother had just finished baking using carton and wood due to the circumstances of war and Gaza blockade. Aseel could do nothing after she saw her mother dead. She had no time even to cry;   minutes after she herself fell martyr as Israeli troops fired a new targeted shell to their house yard to kill more. Aseel and all her brothers died at once. Only her elder brother Bakr survived because he was not at home at that time; he was on his way to return the oven to his aunt.

Other information:

Aseel was in the fourth grade; she was the most intelligent child in comparison with her brothers.  She always got "Excellent" grade .

Aseel had a very special relationship with her sister Alaa, according to what her brother Bakr says: "I remembered every day when Alaa wake up at morning to comb Aseel's hair in a very special style   and she used to help her with her study"

He added," we used to gather every Friday but now I am all alone! They all have gone…  Even Aseel's friends Islam and Badria who used to pass every day to play with her they are no longer passing by.  They were shocked for losing Aseel". 

Her Dreams: Aseel's parents were very proud of her and wished to see her a doctor. However Aseel dreamed of that too, every day she came back from the school she start acting like teacher. She always asked her brothers and her friends to sit around here to teach them.

 
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