Rim Zidan, 44, killed at a distribution site

Mirvat Zidan, 20, told a researcher for B’Tselem how her mother, Rim, was killed at an aid distribution site on June 3. It was about 3:30 am. Rim was holding the hand of her 12-year-old son, Ahmad. Mirvat was walking ahead when Israeli soldiers opened fire on the aid seekers. 

“I turned around and saw her lying on the ground. I thought she had fainted; I couldn’t imagine she’d been killed. I called to her, ‘Mom! Mom! Can you hear me?!’ People told me she’d been killed, but I kept begging her not to leave me. I held her hand and felt for her pulse. When I put my head on her chest, I could feel her heart still beating. I asked for someone to help me, but nobody could because the firing was incessant, and they shot anyone who lifted their head.”

Ahmad had fled when the shooting started. When Rim died, Mirvat searched for him and finally found him.

Mirvat said about 30 people were killed and 200 injured that night.

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