OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, April 8 (IslamOnline) – In its aggressive military campaign against the Palestinian people, Israel ruthlessly massacred another six year old Palestinian girl in the arms of her mother in Rafah.

Somaya Najeh Hassan, was shot dead in cold blood Saturday April 6, 2002 by the Israeli soldiers whose guns and weapons don’t differentiate between men, women, children or the elderly.

Medical sources from the Abu Yusuf Al-Naggar Martyr Hospital told IslamOnline that Somaya became a child-martyr when Israeli occupation soldiers shot randomly and extensively from the military zone of Zareb at the houses and unarmed citizens in the main street of Tel-El-Sultan alley in Rafah.

Somaya was in her grandfather’s car with her mother when a 0.8 mm bullet hit her from below her chin and came out the other side of her head. Her mother was seriously injured in her nose and her grandfather, Samih Rasheed Al-Kaik, 50, was also injured in the shoulder.

Somaya was born on August 16, 1996 in the Brazilian alley in the Palestinian city of Rafah to a religious Muslim family. She has two sisters, Wala, 8, and Samah, 5. Her parents were about to register her in school before she was brutally murdered.

Her uncle, Adnan Abd El-Hady Hassan, 41, told IslamOnline that Somaya’s father who is being treated for leukemia in Egypt, still doesn’t know about his daughter. “We don’t want to tell him because we are afraid that this tragic news could threaten his own life,” Adnan said.

Medical sources told IslamOnline that this is not the first time that the bullets of the occupation soldiers target children. They mercilessly shoot them everywhere, in their houses, in the playgrounds and even in the arms of their mothers.

Salwa Hamad Dahleez, 11, was also shot dead by Israeli soldiers on the same day as Somaya. Nine other children were seriously wounded as well when they were attacked by occupation soldiers on their way back home from school.

At least four Palestinian girls were ruthlessly killed by occupation soldiers throughout the month of March 2002 alone. They are Shaima Saeed Hamad, 11, Reham Hossam Abu Taha, 5, Mona Samy Al-Bahabsa, 15, and Salwa Hamad Dahleez, 11.