Justice for Gaza
14 June 2015
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Name: Yousif Jamil Sobhi Hamouda
Date of birth: 27 December 1998
Date of death: 19 July 2014
Fifteen-year-old Yousif from Beit Lahia in the north of the Gaza Strip was a kind and happy child. He liked food very much. He did not like school and studying. “He liked football and his favorite team was Real Madrid,” said his sister Dena, 28.
On 19 July 2014, eight Israeli missiles hit the street in front of his house. Seven people were killed including Yousif and his brother Omar, 10. He had told Dena before he died "no one can escape his destiny.”
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