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Child Profile: Abdullah Tarad Abu-Hejair

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14 June 2015

Abdullah Tarad Abu-Hejair

Date of birth: 2 June 1998

Date of death: 21 July 2014

 

Sixteen-year-old Abdullah Tarad Abu-Hejair from the village of Wadi Gaza had to leave school early because of the difficult economic situation that his family found themselves in. He hasn’t learned how to read or write but had started learning the alphabet shortly before he was killed. “He dreamed of being educated and told our dad that I should help him,: his sister, Ameera, 14, says. Abdullah had fallen in love with a young woman some months before he was killed and he was hoping to marry her when he was a bit older.

On 21 July 2014, Abdullah went out on his motorcycle to an UNRWA school that was being used as shelter in the An-Nuseirat refugee camp. He was targeted by a drone near the school. The first missile missed him, but the second hit him, tearing his body into pieces. “We were waiting for him to come home when his friend told my father that he’d been killed; it was such a shock for all of us. My mother is really sad, she cries all the time. We really miss him,” his sister says.

 

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