The records of the ongoing genocide in Gaza are of a unique value for the remembrance of the victims of these brutal atrocities, and as a tribute to their memories, ensuring that this dark stain on human history is never forgotten. As of today, 50,000 children, women and men from every profession and age group have been brutally torn from life. For the past 450 days, day and night, across all units of time- every second, minute and hour- 2.3 million people like prey in a continuous hunt, are relentlessly chased, killed, burned, torn apart, starved, left without shelter, and the world continues to watch.

Yet, those who have been torn from life, whose bodies have been disrespected, and to whom even a grave is denied, as well as the 2.3 million women, children, men and elderly who have been starved, frightened and dragged into a dark abyss of hopelessness for weeks are all human beings just like any one of us. Each of them has a story, a family, and a dream for the future. The dreams, futures and lives taken from them are, in fact, a profound shame, and an insurmountable trauma for every person on this planet.

In this article, I invite you to meet two young girls from Gaza. Both were third-year medical students. Nour and Saja were studying medicine at Al Quds University. Both of them were murdered when their homes were targeted, planned, and deliberately attacked by the Israeli occupation forces.

Nour Ra’fat Labed

Nour Ra’fat Hassan Labed was born on June 25, 2004. Nour, a third-grade medical student at Al-Quds University, was the daughter of martyred doctor Ra’fat Hassan Labed. May Allah have mercy for both of them.

Nour was killed in the attack where Israeli occupation forces directly targeted their house on November 17, 2023. In the same attack, the benevolent and selfless doctor of Gaza who was also the father of Nour, Dr. Ra’fat Hassan Labed was martyred along with his other daughter Suhad and other people from the family. In this repeated never-ending and unsurprising manhunt that is carried out by Israeli occupation forces and these meaningless purposeless attacks solely aimed at creating violence and chaos, tens of often hundreds of innocent civilians mostly children, and women are being slaughtered every single day. Thus, the victims of the massacre carried out on November 17, 2023 were the Labed family.

Dr. Ra’fat and his family had been fasting for a week including the day they were killed, maybe because there was already insufficient food and it was out of reach because of the intentional blockade or perhaps with this opportunity some tranquility could come to their........

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