The Bakr Boys
During last summer’s assault on Gaza, a group of young boys playing football on the beach was attacked by the Israeli military. Four from the same family were killed.
Sayed Bakr was one of the boys who survived, and he tells his harrowing story here.
![An Israeli Caterpillar D9R armoured bulldozer, flying the orange-black flag of the IDF Combat Engineering Corps, next to its roof-mounted machine gun, seen on April 20, 2010 [zachievenor / Flickr]](https://www.interpal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/4546511078_69d5e0f79b_k-500x333.jpg.webp)
![Two girls walk past a graffiti-strewn wall in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)'s Acqba Jaber camp for Palestinian refugees, in the West Bank, located just outside of Jericho [UN Photo/Stephenie Hollyman]](https://www.interpal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/UN7314826-500x333.jpg.webp)
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