Fifth Day
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9. Testimony of Manal Awad, 36, mother of the
martyr Tasnim:1
My children used to go to their grandma’s
house to stay at night and spend time with their
grandma telling them stories before they go to sleep.
I had a strong relation with our in laws.
The day of her martyrdom, Tasnim asked
me twice to go to the market. She went. When she
went out for the third time, she never come back!
She bought what she wanted to buy and when she
arrived home, gunboats fired a shell towards our
neighbour Ahmad who was standing in front of
his house. Tasnim was directly injured in the head,
which led to her direct death.
Tasnim was a courageous, hardworking
daughter. She was a headworker and in housework
as well. She was so responsible, though young. She
let her father be an employer after being unemployed
for so long. She wrote a letter to the Prime Minister,
Ismael Hania, explaining our bad economic situation
and that her father really needs a job. She gave him
the letter she wrote by herself. While giving him the
letter, she said, ‘Please sir, help us! Daddy has to
make a living. He doesn’t have a job!’ 10 days later,
the prime minister found my husband a temporary
job for a year. It was an amazing surprise for us.
This angel who has always helped her
family and did well to us despite of her age; this
angel we have lost forever.
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An interview with Manal Awad on Sunday, 7 April 2013,
at her house in the Beach Camp, western Gaza.
