Chapter 1 : The cruel incident

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In Palestine, In the Evening 27th October 2023 . Is the day Fatimah will never forget . The day where Fatimah have lost her parents. The day where she see children crying. The day she sees mother and father crying. The day she saw everyone crying because they had lost their lost one. The day the Israel bombed Gaza .

Before the incident....

"Wake up...my dear children.... it's already zuhur.... wake up and let's do our prayers together. I'll wait for you in the prayer room."said the mother . The children then slowly open their eyes and slowly get up and walked to the bathroom to make their wudhu . After , that they are done with the wudhu they than walked into the prayer room where the father and the mother are waiting. 

Fatimah the eldest daughter of the family reached her hands out for his two young twin brothers named Ibrahim and Alif . " You two are so slow... Come on....let's hurry up to the prayer room...father and mother are waiting for us ." Said Fatimah in a gentle voice while holding her younger twin brothers.

When , they enter the prayer room they spotted their parents sitting and is ready to do the prayer. "Come and get to your places." Said the mother in a calm voice while making a hand signal to be quick . Then , when they in their position . The father is the imam. Then , the father do the iqamah "Allahuakbar,Allahuakbar....." Then ,  the father lift the takbiratul ihram and start the prayer .

After , they had done the prayer . The mother got up to do some housework. When suddenly they heard an announcement saying that they had to evacuated immediately to the south. Then they looked out the window to see many people running to the south as if their life depends on it . "Boom" there is a loud sound . Fatimah quickly grab the two of their twin brothers in a horrified face . The parents then quickly open the door and told their children to get out of the building as quick as they could . Fatimah then carried the two of their brothers while their parent is running as fast as they could behind .

When , Fatimah and the brothers were out of the building . Fatimah and the brothers shout " QUICK !! MOTHER FATHER !!! QUICK YOU MUST GET OUT OF THERE !!" . Their parents are almost out of the building . When , suddenly a bomb struck the building . Fatimah and the brothers almost get hid by the building but they managed to dodge it . They try finding clues of their parents . It took them hour to find their parents but when they found them . They are dead . Fatimah and the twins couldn't hold it anymore . They ran towards the parents and hug them tightly even they know they are dead and when they look around they saw that almost every building in Gaza has been bombed  .Suddenly , they heard a scream "HELP ME... PLEASE...."before following and searching on where the voice came from . They say their lat goodbye and had to left them there with a heavy heart as If they had been stabbed on their backs million of time.

When they were following the voice  they saw a man being squeezed with a brick . They hid behind a large brick . Next to the man they saw a man standing and watching the man beg and scream for help. The man that is standing is wearing a clothes that military usually wear. He also had gun's in his hand . Then , Fatimah and the brothers quickly ran to the man trying to help the men get out and lift the brick but it was too heavy. They asked and begged the man who is standing to help them lift the brick but unexpectedly , he shot the man on the head . Fatimah was too stunned to speak . The brothers cry hard seeing the man bleed Infront of their eyes . Fatimah watch it in fear . She couldn't believe it . A man being shot on the head in front of her face . The man than laughed . She was confused and horrified. How can he laugh after killing a person ? How ?!? . The man than said " you better run before your brothers is next". She than quickly carries both her brothers and ran as fast as she could crying and hearing to her brothers screaming .

When they had arrived to the place that they had to evacuated. Fatimah search for the hospital. both the twin has injured their arm due to the bomb . She then found a nearby hospital. She quickly get into the hospital for some help .

But as she enter she heard a loud  scream . There is person who had injured themselves due to the bomb really bad . Many children are scared in the hospital. Fatimah was shocked and looked horrified due to the circumstances. Children is crying and screaming because they have lost their parents. Mother's are crying because they had lost their baby . Everyone in the hospital crying because the lost their love ones. Each and everyone of them .

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Once , they had got the treatment. They got out of the hospital . They searched for a place to stay but there is no luck and because of tiredness they then took a nap on the ground since there is no where else to sleep and they don't even have a choice. But before sleep they do their prayers first which is maghrib and qada' their asar prayer . Then , they slept for a while . Then they woke up because they heard azan not so far from the place they are staying . They do the Isyak prayer and go to sleep but the twins hard a hard time going to sleep . Fatimah remember that her mother would always istighfar while patting her back when she was a child .So, Fatimah did the same thing that the her mother used to do with her. Surprisingly it work well the twin are asleep . She smiles looking at the twin fast asleep.

While , watching the twin fast asleep something inside her just felt worried and got a feeling that something bad is going to happen tomorrow. But she was too tired to even think end up sleeping instead.

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