Child Profile: Yahia Naim Nazmi Balata

Name: Yahia Naim Nazmi Balata

Date of birth: 22 February 2006

Date of death: 29 July 2014

Eight-year-old Yahia from Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip was the youngest member of his family. He loved riding bicycles. “Despite his young age, he had a strong body,” says his brother Alaa, who is 18.

Yahia was killed in the Balata family massacre along with his mother and nine others from the same family when their house was targeted by Israeli missiles. "I miss all of the tiny details about Yahia,” his brother added.