A small, family-owned supermarket put the two girls in school.
“Hala was an excellent student. She was always committed to her classes and exams. She was polite and liked drawing and colouring. She liked art classes so much,” said her teacher Ahlam Al Shanti.
Hanaa was a bookworm.
“Hanaa was a diligent student. She liked sport and Arabic classes,” Ms Al Shanti told the NRC team who was attempting to get in contact with the girls families.
On May 16, eight children working with the NRC were killed in a single day, including Tala Ayman Abu Al Auf, 13, and her 17-year-old brother.
Speaking to
The National, one of the strike’s organisers Issam Bakr said: “The strike is not a goal in and of itself but a way to shed light on the reality on the ground. It is a message of unity among Palestinians wherever they may be living, in their stance against the occupation and the massacre in Gaza”.
He and other proteste
rs were marching towards the Israeli settlement of Beit El near Ramallah. Although largely peaceful, the marches are expected to turn violent if the Israeli army disperses demonstrators, he said at the start of the demonstrations.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health
Only a handful of merchants, with ties to pro-government militia, can make bids
A farmer picks peaches from trees in a farm in the village of Rahbet Khattab in the northwestern countryside of Hama province in central Syria. Seven years into Syria s civil war, some 6.5 million people in the country are unable to meet their food needs, the United Nations says. AFP
This aerial view shows Syrian potato farmers using a tractor to plant the root vegetables near the town of Binnish in Syria s northwestern Idlib province. AFP
Workers in Rateb Hosrom s greenhouse prepare bunches of freshely-picked carnations at his greenhouse in Syria s northwestern Idlib province, to be sold in flower shops around the rebel-held region. AFP
“Fatah is due to be a loser in these elections. It is now divided between an official list that the president is running, whether for the legislative or the presidential elections, and another non-official list,” said Mohammed Daoudi, former fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and director of the Wasatia Academic Institute in Jerusalem.
“Kidwa and Barghouti unified their forces to run for the elections and they have good support base, much more than the official Fatah list,” Mr Daoudi told journalists in a virtual press briefing from east Jerusalem.
A poll of 1,270 adults in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research showed that a quarter of Palestinians would vote for Mr Al Barghouti s independent list over one run by Fatah.