Child Profile: Osama Hussein Khalil Lafy

Name:  Osama Hussein Khalil Lafy   

Date of birth: 13 January 2003

Date of death: 4 August 2014

Eleven-year-old Osama from Al-Jneinah, Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip was the youngest child in his family. He was an obedient and calm boy. He was an outstanding student. He loved drawing. “He wanted to be a doctor in the future,” his father, Hussein, 63, said.

On 4 August 2014, An Israeli war plane targeted a group of civilians in the neighborhood of Al-Jneinah. Osama was killed instantly and his father and his siblings were seriously injured.