Ten martyred and forty injured after an attack undertaken by the Israeli military forces, Friday evening at a beach in Gaza City.

Several children, a man, and a woman, why did they die? Because they wanted to spend a day off at the beach? Or was it because they wanted to exercise some of their human rights? These rights that Palestinians do not have.

Is it because a Palestinian child wanted to play and have fun like a child would anywhere else in the world? Many questions raised but none answered. Where are the rights of children? Where are the human rights? I can't say they have disappeared, because children around the world are enjoying their rights in all forms.  They live in peace, and feel free. The children of Palestine are just children by name, they only receive a fraction of their legitimate rights.

Why are there all these crimes? Because the people of Gaza are meant to be dispersed? No. It is because there's nothing left in the consciousness of the world except killing and terrorism.

Where are the Arab countries that are supposed to support the just cause of our people? This cause that has become nothing, something we cannot even dream about, just ink on paper. A cause that has to become a priority which needs a solution.

People are celebrating the echoes of the World Cup, and children are getting killed just because they are innocent, and demand no more than to live in peace and freedom. Where are the peace activists in the world? Where are those who claim that they support the peace process? They no longer exist. They no longer dare to say the truth or support justice. Because they live in the shadow of the two most powerful countries in the world “the US and Israel”. Until when will they continue to be surrounded by this fear from all sides, to the point where they cannot defend the children of Palestine?

Huda Ghalia, a child who is not yet 10 years old. Her whole family was killed in the Israeli attack on that beach, to become an orphan with no brothers or sisters. This girl whose fate is to live alone in this world. She will continue to miss her mother's warmth which she has lost forever and the love of her father, who was killed in front of her eyes, as she sat next to him screaming Baba Baba (Dad, Dad).

All this happened because she is just an innocent child who wanted to play and have fun, who wanted to spend a day off at the beach, who thought that it would be safe for her and her family. A beach that the Israelis have not spared from their terrorism and turned into a scene for one of their ugliest crimes. She went to the beach to run away from the sound of gunfire, and tanks, and missiles, yet the gunfire refused to let her enjoy a little time with her family.

And with the sunset, Huda's screams disappeared among the sea waves, the martyrs, and the spilled blood. Her screams remain the only memory that Huda left behind at that Gaza beach.

Rand Waddah Ja'bari

Age: 13 years.

Hebron