“What was his crime?” » asks Reham Suleiman, two weeks after the death of his 8-year-old son in the Jabaliya camp, in the north of the Gaza Strip. On June 8, Jad left for school hungry, after waiting a long time at a bread distribution point. At midday, he joined his father at the family pastry shop to drink juice. He was returning to class when a strike took place, less than twenty meters away. “I rushed towards him, screaming. My boy was lying on the ground, his schoolbag still on his back,” says Youssef. A fragment of a missile had pierced his neck. “He was such a nice boy, who didn’t hurt anyone,” whispers his mother, already grieving the death of both her parents since the start of the war.
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