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16 June 2015
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Name: Rafif Attah Mohamed Al Najjar
Date of birth: 10 April 2011
Date of death: 29 July 2014
Three-year-old Rafif from Khan Younis had a strong and daring personality. She liked toys. She treated her dolls like children and played the role of their mother. She dressed like an adult. She liked children. She also liked the songs form the Toyoor Al Jannah children’s television and she had them all memorized. She loved her younger brother and used to share her stuff and sweets with him. “She sometimes waited for her mother to fall asleep and then she would play with her makeup,” said her grandmother.
On 29 July 2014, Israeli warplanes attacked her house without warning. Rafif was killed along with many members of her family, including her parents and her brother.
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