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Child Profile: Ameer Iyad Salim Areef

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14 June 2015

Ameer Iyad Salim Areef

Date of birth: 22 October 2002

Date of death: 9 July 2014

 

11-year-old Ameer Iyad Salim Areef from Al Sheja’iya, Gaza, was a shy boy. He was very close to his grandmother and loved listening to her stories at bedtime. He also liked kicking a football around in the street and playing computer games. On 9 July 2014, when Ameer and his brother Mohammed were on their way to the grocery store to pick up some yoghurt, an Israeli drone fired a missile at them. As a result, Ameer and his brother were killed instantly.

 

He liked to eat a traditional Palestinian dish ‘maftoul’. He was doing well at school and hoped to go to university to continue his studies. He wanted to be a judge like his uncle.

 

“It was a real shock to us. The kids were playing in front of us just an hour before they were killed. Their father went to the hospital to see Ameer but he was shocked to see his two kids were killed,” the grandmother says.

 

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