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“There’s no future for Gaza’s children. The friends I used to play with have been martyred. We used to run around together. May God have mercy on them. The mosque where I used to memorise the Quran has been bombed. My school has been bombed. So has the playground… everything has gone. I want peace. I wish I could return with my friends and play again. I wish we had a house, not a tent.”

"May God have mercy on you, my beloved," his sister Rahaf wrote in a post on Instagram announcing his death.

Have mercy on him, he’s disabled.

In letters to the judge, DePape’s mother, Shirley Jean Lawrence, asked him to have mercy on her son, stating that he’d “messed up big time.”

“May the Most High have mercy on that boy. General Sharpe, please see to it that he’s found. Attacking a child ain’t a crime to take lightly.”