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18 June 2015
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Name: Arwa Mahmoud Salama Dhair
Date of birth: 9 February 1998
Date of death: 29 July 2014
Sixteen-year-old Arwa from the Msabeh area in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip was said to have been very close to her uncle. She was a very clever girl and very open-minded. She was an outstanding student at school. “She enjoyed doing household tasks and she liked to play on the computer,” Sheikh Mohamed Dhair, said, one of the surviving children.
At approximately 4:29 am on 29 July 2014 an Israeli drone launched a missile at the Dhair family's house. During the evacuation, when seven people had just stepped out of the main door of the house and the rest of the group were close behind, a second missile hit the house. The three-storey house was completely destroyed. Twenty persons were killed, including sixteen-year-old Arwa. Three people were injured.
“Honestly, I miss them all so much. I feel that life after them is worth nothing," added Sheikh Mohamed Dhair.
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