'She prayed she would be martyred': Gaza parents mourn their dead

Reem Abu Irmana lost her 14-year-old daughter at the border; Ibrahim al-Toubasi lost his sonAt 14 years old, Wesal Sheikh Khalil had already made plans for her funeral. If Israeli troops were to shoot her during protests on the Gaza border, the Palestinian teenager had told her mother, she should be buried at the spot where she died or in the plot next to her grandfather’s grave.“She thought death was better than this life,” said Reem Abu Irmana a day after she lost her younges