Mira Sa'id Tanboura

Mira was a resident of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. On the 42nd day of the frenzied war, after a difficult night of heavy shelling in their area, the Tal al-Za'atar school, where Mira and her family had taken shelter, was bombed by occupation forces, who committed a massacre there. At dawn, her family was forced to flee to the south of the Strip, as they had been instructed, via the so-called 'military checkpoint' along Salah al-Din Street. The occupation army had claimed it was a safe passage to leave the combat zones ('danger zones') for the south. After Mira crossed the checkpoint, clinging to her father's hand and hoping to escape all the fear and scenes of horror, an Israeli sniper shot her with a bullet to the chest. Her innocent soul ascended to the heavens, joining the procession of noble martyrs.