Child Profile: Asma'a Mohamed Kamal Al-Bakri

Name: Asma'a Mohamed Kamal Al-Bakri  

Date of birth: 30 April 2014

Date of death: 4 August 2014

Asma'a from Gaza City was born quite recently. She was only three-month-old. “She was a very smiley baby,”  said her grandmother (78).

On 4 August 2014, during Ramadan, when the Al-Bakri family was getting ready to sit down to the Iftar meal to break their fast, their house was struck with two missiles. The Israeli forces attacked without warning. The three-story house was destroyed. Five members of the family were killed including baby Asma'a. Six others were seriously injured.