The early hours of Saturday were not like the other days that passed the Basic School of Abdullah bin Rwaha primary students in al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after the grief for the neighborhoods of its students and teachers after they lost four school children, from one family, in A row that affected their family´s home in the same area at dawn last Thursday.
The children´s martyrs were photographed with wreaths at school and on the study benches of those four children, the brothers "Wasim Mohammed Al-Swarka", "Muath Mohammed Al-Swarka", and the other two brothers, "Mohammed Official Al-Swarka" and "Muhannad Al-Swarka".
The students, fellow child martyrs, lived very difficult moments within the school classes, before the school administration decided in cooperation with the District Directorate as "an open day" for the students with the aim of "psychological discharge" from them after the suffering experienced by children as a result of the Israeli aggression during the the last days and their loss to their friends and classmates.
The child Issa Al-Swarka said that he was in a relationship of friendship, love and fellowship with the children Muhannad and Wasim, and he went with them daily to school and return to school, and they have fun and play together in the vicinity of their neighbors in the area of al-Baraka, daily, and they race by bicycle and eat food together in each other´s homes.
Speaking in his simple slang and his tears, he said, "What is the same as i read, and the school without them is what it is, the school has become dark without them. I am very upset and I cried a lot when they were martyred. They took my friend from me, God take revenge on them, and God forbid they bomb children, what is their sin?"
A number of students said in separate interviews that it is not guilt for their colleagues and that what happened with them is criminal, where their colleague Ahmed Swarka said: "We are children, we have no reason to be aware, we have lost our dearest friends. We are innocent children who have no guilt."
Ahmed pointed out that the house of his friends and relatives was a tin that could not withstand the firing of rockets, and was not equipped from the inside with the possibilities of any ordinary house, pointing out that it was a house with the minimum needs of human beings, and that the family is very poor.
Ibrahim Abu Khattab, the school´s principal, said these children were martyred because of the arrogance of the occupation, questioning the role of the United Nations, children´s rights and human rights institutions, and what they had done for those children who died in sleep without committing any sin.
He noted that they had taken measures to psychologically relieve students and play their preferred games, as well as to allocate quotas by the social worker to try to alleviate the suffering they had experienced as a result of the aggression of the occupation.
