By Antonio Pita (
El País
)
When Jamila thinks back to her son's suicide, she sees him asking for forgiveness as they burned together.
Hosni Abu Arabiya had struck a match after dozing on a liter of gasoline.
As he began to set himself on fire, he got scared and instinctively threw himself into his mother's lap.
"He said to me: I'm sorry, mum, I didn't want to hurt you, just for you to help me, I'm sorry", the mother, still marked by burn scars, recalls today in her house in Jabalia, at the northern end of the Gaza Strip.
Several neighbors approached upon hearing the screams and put out the fire.
Hosni died in hospital the next day, July 23.
“I think he just wanted to scream for help.
We
had so many problems every day…”
says the father, Ibrahim, a 56-year-old man with a kidney problem that prevents him from continuing to work in construction, as he did…
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