- 1 jan 2009
al-Mu'iz Ldin Allah Jihad Yusef a-Nasleh, 2 - `Uyun Jihad An-Naslah, 16
(Naslah family) Name of Victim: `Uyun Jihad An-Naslah
Age: 16 years old.
Sex: Female.
Date of Death: Jan. 1, 2009
Place of Death: An-Nada neighborhood, North Gaza Strip
Cause of Death: Shrapnel of a missile launched by an Israeli F16 plane at the water tank in An-Nada Neighborhood.
Details of Last Hours:
When the world celebrated the first day of the New Year, the family of An-Naslah in Gaza celebrated the arrival of electricity to their home after days of absence because of the war.
The family members rushed to finish the housework with mother and stepmother. They were making the pasta that the young Al-Mu`iz Li-Din Allah loved to eat in the electric container.
While the family was busy accomplishing these works, Israeli F-16 warplanes targeted the water tank in An-Nada neighborhood with four missiles. One of these missiles hit the house of Jihad An-Naslah to kill his son Al-Mu`iz Li-Din Allah and his sister `Uyun at once.
Their aunt said: "When the explosion took place, I went out to see the aftermath and I found the body of `Uyun has torn up while she was lying on a pile of glass. Then, my husband went to bring my son `Azzouz. When he took a long time, I searched for him and I found that his heart was out of his chest."
Other Information:
`Uyun was a beautiful girl, talkative, quite, and sensible. She started her academic year actively because she promised her family to exert much effort to get high marks in the scientific subjects in particular.
She wanted to study nursing or the Physiotherapy; Math was her beloved subject. Her aunt added: "`Uyun was gifted in painting, so she liked it very much and loved to form pieces of art to the extent that she made a masterpiece from clay and asked us to keep it in the house. However, the school took it and she promised to make another one."
Her father described her as shy, kind-hearted for her siblings, and helping all the people. Days before her death, her father and aunt looked at `Uyun and wondered about that beauty which came upon her suddenly in her last days which made her face shine.
The same thing happened to her brother whom died with her. Her aunt said: "Every time `Uyun came or went I flirted her saying to her father: '`Uyun became beautiful enough to marry soon'."
In her last moments and in a family session, her brother Mu`iz asked her to sit by his side on the carpet and said: "I love you." She answered: "Me too." He hugged her to meet their final end after two hours…
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Nasla family Ayoun Nasla, 6, and M’uz Nasla, 2.
“I wish that if our fate is to die, that we die together, I wouldn’t want anybody left to have to bear this sort of pain.”
On 1 January 2009 at around 15:00, Israeli military planes targeted a water tower across from the home of the Nasla family in North Beit Lahiya. The family were making lunch when the first bomb hit. As the family were trying to escape the smoke filled house, a second and third bomb struck the area, killing Ayoun Nasla, six, and M’uz Nasla, two.
For Ayoun and M’uz’s father, Jihad Nasla, the memory of what happened that day is especially distressing. “I found M’uz with his heart outside his chest and my daughter Ayoun with part of her skull missing and her brains spilt out," says Jihad. “It is the night time, when I used to tell M'uz the stories of Abraham to get him to sleep, and when I go to visit their graves, when I most vividly recall the incident”. “I can no longer go into clothes shops to buy clothes for my children, I used to buy for three boys and two girl’s; I can’t bear to buy only for three”, added Fatima, forty-two.
The children’s mother, Fatima, has also given a lot of thought and attention to that fateful day. It is clear that she ruminates on the moments, days and years before the attack took place. “M'uz used to go to the balcony of the house every morning and say “good morning” to Majdal and Herbia, where our family is originally from, and every night he would say “good night.” The day he was killed he had said good morning but he never got to say good night,” says Fatima. “M'uz used to have a favourite resistance song he sang all the time, it reminds me so much of him anytime it is played, especially because it is played a lot on the anniversary of his death, which also happens to be the anniversary of one of the resistance groups. The title of the song is now written on his grave.”
The family dynamic has been dramatically changed since the attack, a result of the stress they all share; the stress of one family member increases the anxiety of the others. “My wife now cries every day, I have to try and calm her down every time and this has become a source of conflict between us,” says Jihad, to which Fatima adds: “I cry so often I feel my vision is now starting to be affected.” The children’s anxiety also feeds into the parent’s anxiety. “If Zeid wakes up in the middle of the night, when it’s dark, he starts to scream. I then wake up terrified something is happening” says Jihad.
The anxiety of the children is plain both from their parents discussion of the changes they have gone through since the death of their siblings, and their reaction to the unhappy topic of the discussion. “Mu’tassam was very calm until the incident. But he has started to become violent. His grades have also been lightly affected” says Jihad.
Talk of the future for the couple is largely filled with fear and doubt. “In the future I hope to live in peace with the Israelis, but I doubt this will happen given what the Israelis do to us” says Fatima. “I wish that if our fate is to die that we die together, I wouldn’t want anybody left to have to bear this sort of pain”. Jihad expresses similar feelings, “I am terrified that another attack will take more of us, when planes are flying overhead I tell my children to play so that we are distracted," he says. “My hope is that the pain we carry will one day come to an end, but I don’t know how this is going to happen.”
1 jan 2012 PCHR submitted a criminal complaint to the Israeli authorities on 9 September 2009. To date, no response has been received.
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"The second of January is no different from any other day. Every day and every minute feels like the moment when I lost my sons. In everything there is a memory of them. I miss them all the time.”
On 2 January 2009 at around 14:30 an Israeli drone fired a missile at an open area in Qarara village, close to Khan Yunis. The missile struck and killed two brothers, Mohammed (twelve) and Abed Rabbo (nine) al-Astal, and their cousin, Abdul Sattar Walid al-Astal (eleven) while they were playing and eating sugar canes in the land.
“I was at home when I heard an explosion that was close to our area. An Israeli drone was flying in the sky above us at that moment.” Eyad al-Astal recalls. “Approximately ten minutes later, my brother Ibrahim () came to my house and told me that my two sons and their cousin were killed by an Israeli shell. I rapidly left the house and headed to the scene about 250 meters west of my house. There I saw a deep hole. Traces of blood and fragments of flesh were still there.”
Three years have passed since Eyad lost his two sons but he still carries vivid memories with him. “Every day and every minute feels like the moment when I lost my sons. In everything there is a memory of them. I miss them all the time.”
Eyad tries to describe what the life of his family is like without Mohammed and Abed Rabbo: “Our lives have been very difficult since they were killed. Every time I see another boy their age, I remember my sons. I still cannot look at their photos, it is too painful.” He says; “I always feel like crying but I try not to. My wife, Jawaher, cries everyday but tries to hide her tears from me. She does not want to add salt to my wounds. My wife always wants to go to our sons’ graves with her mother, but I don’t. I only went once and don’t want to go again. I can’t face the sight of their graves.”
Besides Mohammed and Abed Rabbo, Eyad and his wife have five daughters and two sons. Mohammed and Abed Rabbo were the oldest children and their siblings were either very young or not born yet at the time of their death. The youngest child was born one and a half years after the war and will have no memories at all. “When the children ask us where their brothers are we tell them that they were killed, martyred, and are in heaven now”, says Eyad.
The memory of his sons is at the tip of Eyad’s tongue. “My son Khaled looks exactly like his brother Mohammed and I often find myself saying ‘Mohammed!’ when I actually mean to call Khaled.” In order to keep going, Eyad tries to stay busy all the time, finding some distraction by meeting people and working as a mason.
Since the death of his sons Eyad is tormented by worries and fears for the safety of his other children. Before the death of Mohammed and Abed Rabbo he allowed his children to go anywhere at anytime. Even when there were explosions and shooting was heard in the area. After the incident he became very afraid for his children and he wants to keep them inside. “I am afraid that anything would happen to them, especially for my son Khaled, who is now in the first grade. From the moment he leaves the house I worry that something could happen to him. Every day he walks to school, which is 1 kilometer away from our home. I know education is important, otherwise I would forbid him to go, out of my fear.”
The children themselves are aware that their brothers were killed by a drone: the same type of drone they often hear and see flying above themselves. Eyad explains that “when they hear a drone they are too afraid to go outside. ‘The drone will bomb me if I go out’, is what they say.”
The area where Mohammed and Abed Rabbo were killed was an open area approximately three kilometres away from the border with Israel. “The children were used to playing in that area. Our piece of land is close to it. It is an agricultural residential area, far from any hostilities,” Eyad explains.
Eyad is sceptical about the future, given the continuing impunity. “The Israelis disregard our rights. They kill our children and bulldoze our lands and no one will hold them accountable,” he says. “I expect the Israeli court to reject our complaint. I can even imagine them killing me together with my other children. However, I want to hope that the complaint would have some result.”
2 jan 2011 PCHR submitted a criminal complaint to the Israeli authorities on behalf of the al-Astal family on 23 June 2009. To-date, no response has been received.
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Cristine
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Details of the Last Hours:
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