Child Profile: Khaleel Osama Khalil Al Hayya
14 June 2015
Khaleel Osama Khalil Al Hayya
Date of birth: 13 august 2007
Date of death: 20 July 2014
Six-year-old Khaleel Osama Al Hayya from Gaza City liked poetry. He would write letters to his aunts and grandmother who are in Dubai, telling them how much he missed them. He received high marks at school and he liked reading. He liked swimming and playing football. “His grandfather used to call him “leader” because he liked organizing his bedroom and his brothers copied him,” says his grandmother.
On 20 July 2014, an Israeli warplane attacked the house of Osama Al Hayya without warning. As a result, Khali, his father Osama, 30; his mother, Hala, 29; his sister Omama, 9; his brothers Hamza , 6; and Hamza, 5, were killed.