Lauren Mohammad Al-Koumi

Martyr Lauren Mohammad Al-Koumi, 2 and a half years old.

An innocent child who had committed no wrongdoing in her life, except being born in an occupied city under Nazi occupation (Israel). She was beloved by her family. Her uncle Akram Al-Hirsh wrote:

The date: April 27, 2023.

The anticipated joy, for the first and last time, I will become an uncle. Lorin, the child I loved before I held her, the owner of a laughter that steals hearts, the apple of her grandfather’s eye, as he used to lovingly call her. She loved to play and stroll with all the family’s children. Perhaps she dreamed of growing up to become an engineer like her father? Or a teacher like her mother? Perhaps if she grew up, she’d become a beauty icon. There were many diverse possibilities, but the machine of aggression created by the occupier ruthlessly killed her, robbed her innocent childhood, deprived us of her laughter, and deprived me of touching her forever.

Her uncle wrote in his eulogy:

“My beloved, it is not a loss in Palestine, oh apple of my parents’ eyes. May Allah grant us patience in the separation from this sweet smile. Remember her name well, this beautiful girl is Lauren Mohammad Sulaiman Al-Koumi, the martyr, daughter of the martyr Hanin Hassan Al-Harash.”

This occupation committed crimes against our people, our children, our women, and our men, corrupting our land. It didn’t suffice to just kill her; it killed her mother, Hanin, and her uncle, Mahmoud, along with their four children: Hassan, Farah, Hanin, and Joud.

Remember them and speak of them well so the world knows their story

On December 19, 2023, Lauren was martyred on the journey to escape death with her parents, only to be met with a treacherous shell from an Israeli tank that mercilessly tore apart their bodies in Jabalia.