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Eileen Abu Ouda

Eileen Abu Ouda

Age 1

My name is Eileen Abu Ouda. I was killed along with 30 members of my family after Israeli warplanes targeted our home. My mother waited for me for a long time, nearly eight years, after my older sister, the martyr Yasmin Abu Ouda, was born. I loved my mother, and my mother loved me so much, but Israel did not leave her time to love me more. What was my sin, to be killed in this atrocity? What was my mother's sin, to be deprived of seeing me grow up before her eyes? What is the sin of Gaza's children, that they must die and be deprived of playing and laughing with the ones we love? Israel killed me and my family on October 19, 2023.