Amina Al-Mufti left her family's temporary shelter in Gaza on December 21, 2024, to fetch water. Her parents expected her to return quickly, but she never did. "I heard the sound of the missile; we were not sure if our daughter was hit or not," her father, Ashraf Al-Mufti, recounted.

In the aftermath of an Israeli strike, Ashraf's wife searched for Amina at Kamal Adwan Hospital. They found her wrapped in shrouds. "She asked me, has she been martyred? I said yes, praise the lord," Ashraf said. The Al-Mufti family had fled their home in Jabalia after it was shelled, seeking refuge with relatives.

Ashraf was injured while staying with his sister, prompting another move to a building near the hospital. Amina, just 10 years old, had gone outside to collect clean water when she was killed. "Amina would take care of the house we lived in — she would get the water, she would help us, do shopping, she did everything we needed with her mother," Ashraf said. He described her as a source of light in their home, stating, "After she passed away, our home was filled with darkness; there was no life left."

A video of Amina's death circulated widely, showing her carrying a water container before disappearing into a cloud of dust from the strike. Two men were later seen retrieving her lifeless body from the gutter. Ashraf recognized his daughter immediately. "I can differentiate her from a million girls; did I not raise her?" he said.

Despite his injuries, Ashraf dug a grave for Amina near the site of her death. Her body was later moved to a cemetery in Beit Lahiya in late January. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor described the video as evidence of a "deliberate killing" of an unarmed child.

The Kamal Adwan Hospital faced intense military action in December, with multiple strikes hitting the area. Days after Amina's death, Israeli forces stormed the hospital, forcibly evacuating patients and staff, including the hospital's director, who remains in detention. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did not provide specific comments regarding the strike that killed Amina, stating they were unaware of such an event based on the information given.

Ashraf's grief remains palpable as he reflects on his daughter's death. Simple tasks, like collecting water, are now reminders of his loss. "When I fill those two buckets, I think of my daughter — the two buckets, they are the only ones I have," he said.

Since Amina's death, Ashraf has lost his wife and another son, aged seven, in Israeli strikes in May. He has also lost his father and brother. Now living in a tent in Gaza City, Ashraf fears further displacement as military operations intensify.

"I am one of the people that does not have any life left here. I request to leave the country and take my children because I expect any day that someone of them will die, like my kids died," he said. "It is enough — three of them died, it is enough. And me and my son were almost the fourth and the fifth to die."