Justice for Gaza

Child Profile: Mariam Shaibub Ahmed Al Shanbari

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11 June 2015

Name: Mariam Shaibub Ahmed Al Shanbari

Date of birth: 22 December 2001

Date of death: 24 July 2014

Twelve-year-old Mariam from Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip was a sensitive, joyful and laughing child. She loved drawing. She used to take part in her school trips. Her ambition was to be a teacher in the future. She was scared during the war.

On 26 July 2014, Mariam was killed along with her brother, Ali,10, Abed raboh,16, her mother, 47,and her step-mother,40, in an UNRWA school attack. She had been waiting for the bus to take them to a safer place inside the school yard,” said her sister Manar, 14.