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Ten-Year-Old Commits Suicide in Gaza City
At app. 5pm on Sunday 7 February 2010 ten-year-old Ra'ed Tareq Abu Jabal died after he hanged himself few days earlier. The child is from Ash-Sheja'iya neighborhood east of Gaza City. According to affidavits given to Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights by relatives of the child’s, at app. 4pm on Tuesday 2 February 2010, he hung himself by a robe his family use for laundry on the roof of their house. They added that the child’s behavior was an attempted imitation of ‘heroic character’ in a Turkish soap opera. His family found him hanged on the roof and took him to Shifa Hospital immediately. He was referred to an Israeli hospital on the next day; however, he died five days later.
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