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The martyred child Salma, only 5 years old: I used to see her every day selling small cakes. She was the youngest small business owner in the world, selling just five cakes a day. She worked so hard, yet she was deprived of a childhood like other children. She sold cakes, but she never sold her homeland — not at any price. I recorded this video during the harshest days of famine under the siege of northern Gaza. Yesterday, when I went to provide care for a wounded person near her family’s tent, I asked about her, eager to see her again. The moment her name was mentioned, her family began to cry in deep grief. They told me that only days earlier, she was killed when an explosive device hidden inside a toy detonated. She thought it was a toy and picked it up because she could not afford to buy one — her family was poor. She carried what she believed was a toy, but it exploded in her hands, and her small body was torn into five burned pieces. Instead of the five cakes she used to sell every day, her body was turned into five shattered fragments — the result of deadly remnants left behind, turning Gaza’s children into victims day after day. The martyred child Salma is only one story among thousands of stories of systematic killing and ethnic cleansing. Please share the story of the martyred child Salma with the world. Perhaps something will move, and this hatred and killing will stop. #Children_of_Gaza_are_being_killed before the eyes and ears of the whole world #Gaza_is_calling_for_help #Stop_the_killing Written by Dr. Mostafa Naim From northern Gaza