from Drop Site News
Eight-year-old Jad Suleiman was walking home from school in the
Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Monday when the Israeli
airstrike hit. A piece of shrapnel lodged in his neck, killing him
instantly. Outside Shifa hospital, his body lay on a stretcher wrapped
in a loose white sheet. Dressed in jeans and a blue and red checkered
shirt, the smallness of his body was accentuated by his oversized
backpack, still on his limp shoulders.
Jad’s father, Youssef
Suleiman, was beyond grief. He wept uncontrollably as he bent over his
son’s lifeless body, caressing and kissing his face. “I am not able to
speak,” Suleiman told Drop Site News. He was breathing heavily, almost
gasping for air. He had removed his son’s backpack and was clutching it
to his chest. “My son is 8 years old. What was his crime? He was coming
home from school. This is his bag, there is blood on it. This is the
bag. This is the bag,” he repeated, unable to continue.
Three
Palestinians were killed in the attack, including eight-year-old Jad and
a 70-year-old man. Several others were wounded in the strike and
brought into Shifa on stretchers, bloodied and wincing in pain...
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