Days of Palestine – Gaza
For 16 years, the bitterness of deprivation did not leave the heart of the Palestinian girl Huda Ghalia, who lost her family members in front of her eyes in a massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces in 2006, when she was not 12 years old at the time.
On the day of Friday the ninth of June 2006, on the shore of the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, the girl Huda woke up to the killing of her father and five of her siblings, with a shell from an Israeli warship, which targeted them while they were relaxing on the beach.
A Palestinian television cameraman documented the details of the massacre. His lens captured the little girl, Huda, “at the time”, and she was looking for her father and her siblings before she found them lying in their blood on the sands of the beach; To start screaming and wailing.
The scenes of the massacre committed by the Israeli army against the peaceful family aroused great indignation around the world.
These days, Huda obtained a license to practice law, after completing her law studies; That child – whose crying was documented by cameras on her father’s chest covered in blood on the beach – has become a lawyer who seeks to prosecute those who have been deprived of her by the father’s tenderness.
The promising lawyer began to find her way in the hope of achieving her goal is suing Israel for the murder of her family after this was not possible for the past years.
Huda said, in an interview with Anadolu Agency: “It was not easy for a girl like me at that time, to live after losing a father and five siblings.
She recalls the tragic crime: “I saw my father and brothers lying on the ground in front of my eyes, their souls leaving their bodies, while we were in the midst of a leisure trip after the school year.”
Painful memories Huda noted that trips to the beach are forcing her to relive her painful memories, noting that she no longer likes these trips since the massacre, as summer passes after another and the family rarely goes to the beach.
She added, “The occupation forces did not leave my family alone. A few years later, one of my sisters and her husband were killed, during the Israeli aggression on Gaza 2008-2009, to add a new page in their black record.”
She recounts that the scenes of losing my family remained in my sentimental and memory, and formed a personal motivator for me to seek to recover even a small part of our right, so I decided to study law to become a lawyer defending the rights of my oppressed people.
She added that I am not the only one who lost her father and brothers in the Israeli massacres against us. There are hundreds of Palestinian families, whose children’s smiles have been taken away by the occupation forces and their most basic rights.
Challenging Circumstances
The grieving girl decided to defy her harsh circumstances, overcome the pain and suffering of separation, and realize herself. “That is the destiny of the Palestinian people to make a gift out of the ordeal, and to generate hope from pain,” says Huda.
Huda graduated from high school in the summer of 2012, and joined the Faculty of Law at the Islamic University of Gaza, after receiving a scholarship, until she completed her bachelor’s degree in 2017, and was recently granted a license to practice the legal profession.
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