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Child Profile: Yamen Omar Salama Dhair

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21 June 2015

Name: Yamen Omar Salama Dhair

Date of birth: 12 June 2009

Date of death: 29 July 2014

 

Five-year-old Yamen from the Msabeh area in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip was a calm and smiley child. He liked joking around. He was very close to his uncle Mahmoud, who loved Yamen it seemed even more than his own sons. Yamen liked the chickens who were being raised in his yard. He used to feed and play with them,” said Sheikh Mohamed Dhair, a survivor in the attack.

 

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 was close behind, a second missile hit the house. The three-storey house was completely destroyed. Twenty persons were killed, including five-year-old Yamen. Three persons 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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