三岁的雅雅·马拉希躺在加沙城希法医院停尸房的金属台上。家人们抚摸着他瘦小的身体和脸颊痛哭失声。他的后脑勺有一个橘子大小的缺口。
周二，以色列对加沙城中心人口稠密的纳法克街的一辆警车发动空袭，雅雅是五名遇难巴勒斯坦平民之一。他的父亲穆赫利斯在儿子的遗体前泣不成声，当时雅雅正趴在他叔叔的背上。穆赫利斯回忆道：“我感觉到自己被击中了，开始念诵清真言，然后我发现我儿子的头部已经裂开了。”
袭击发生时，马拉希一家正从亲戚的婚礼现场返回家中。雅雅的堂兄哈德尔表示：“小男孩就这样殉难了，他的叔叔和兄弟们也受了伤。他的罪过仅仅是因为他是一个巴勒斯坦孩子。”
另据报道，4月9日，9岁的里塔杰·雷汉在贝特拉希亚的学校上课时，被飞入教室的子弹击中身亡。
Drop Site is a reader-funded, independent news outlet. Without your support, we can’t operate. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or making a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible donation today.The bullet that killed Ritaj Rihan, 9, as she attended class in school in Beit Lahia is placed next to her body in the morgue of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. April 9, 2026. Photo by Anas Zeyad Fteha/Anadolu via Getty Images.Story by Mohammed Ahmed, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Jawa AhmadGAZA CITY, GAZA—Three-year-old Yahya Al-Malahi lay on a metal table in the morgue of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Family members wept as they caressed his small body and stroked his cheek. A large hole, the size of an orange, was missing from the back of his head.Yahya was among five Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a police vehicle on Al-Nafaq street, a crowded civilian area in the middle of Gaza City on Tuesday.“I wish it had been me instead of you,” Yahya’s father Mukhlis Al-Malahi said as he sobbed over his son’s body. His sweater was soaked with his son’s blood. Al-Malahi told Drop Site Yahya was being carried on his uncle’s back when the missile struck. “I felt I was hit, I began to say the shahada. Then I found my son, his head was split open,” he said.Yahya Al-Malahi’s father, Mukhlis, and other relatives inside the morgue at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on April 14, 2026. Video by Mohammed Ahmed.The Al-Malahi family were walking on Al-Nafaq street on their way back from a wedding of a relative when the attack happened. “My cousin, his son, and his brothers were on their way home when there was an airstrike in the street,” Yahya’s cousin, Hader Al-Malahi, told Drop Site through tears. “The little boy was martyred, and his brothers and uncles were injured. That’s what happened. His crime was that he was a Palestinian child—a Palestinian child who had a wedding to attend. Instead of wearing a suit, he is now wearing a shroud.”Overcome with grief, Mukhlis bent over his son’s lifeless body and held it close. “Is this a ceasefire, people? Look,” he said pointing at the gaping wound in Yahya’s head. “Is this a ceasefire?”On Al-Nafaq street, crowds gathered around the destroyed police vehicle. Small pools of blood stained the road. Abu Ahmad, a bystander, witnessed the attack. “There was a police patrol going out on a mission,” he told Drop Site. “They took a detainee with them and while coming from Al-Yarmouk Junction toward Al-Nafaq Junction, they were targeted.” Two policemen and the detainee were killed in the strike and several others injured.In response, Hamas blasted Israel for deliberately targeting police forces working for Gaza’s Interior Ministry. “The intensified targeting of civilian police officers by the terrorist occupation army comes within the context of the Zionist government’s relentless efforts to sow chaos in the Gaza Strip, weaken the security apparatus, and provide an opportunity for its proxy militias to implement its malicio