Child Profile: Ibrahim Zuhair Al Dawawsa
14 June 2015
Ibrahim Zuhair Al Dawawsa
Date of birth: 18 July 2004
Date of death: 8 August 2014
Ibrahim Zuhair Al Dawawsa was a sociable young boy from Gaza City. He liked football and was an FC Barcelona fan. He had pet birds including a zebra finch. He enjoyed dancing the Palestinian traditional Dabka folk dance.
On Friday 8 August 2014, when Ibrahim went to the mosque with some friends to when they were targeted by an Israeli warplane. He was 10 when he was killed. His friends were injured.
“He was scared of war. He used to sleep in his mother’s arms,” said his father.