Abderrahim and Janna Abudaher
Ages 9, 6
Abderrahim Abu Daher and his 6-year-old sister Janna and 3-year-old brother Omar were French citizens living in northern Gaza. Abderrahim was 9. His happiness was with his school and his friends. And his grandmother Jacqueline Rivault in France called them the “joy of her heart.” The kids stayed connected to their family in Paris through video calls, dreaming of the day they could finally afford to travel and see what France looked like.
When the men in the command centers began destroying and burying people in north Gaza’s neighborhoods, the young siblings and their mother Yasmine fled their apartment on October 22, 2023. They spent forty-eight hours running. Because they were French citizens, Yasmine wanted to reach the southern border to be evacuated by the French consulate. Yasmine, Abderrahim, Omar, and Janna were doing exactly what they were ordered to do: they were trying to get out of Gaza.
But they were trapped by the speed of the killing. The roads south couldn’t be passed. The family moved from one temporary shelter to the next between Fallujah and Beit Lahia, trying to hide from the Israeli soldiers. Their French citizenship meant absolutely nothing to the men passionately hunting little girls and boys day and night.
On the night of October 24, Abderrahim, Janna, Omar, and Yasmine were huddled together in a room in a relative’s house. One of the men in an F-16 fighter jet flew above their home, saw the body heat of young Abderrahim and Janna and decided to fire two missiles down onto them. The first missile broke through the roof. The second missile exploded right on them as they were sleeping in their room.
9-year-old Abderrahim was murdered instantly. 6-year-old Janna barely lived through the initial explosions, but her body gave out shortly after she was taken to a hospital. Yasmine and 3-year-old Omar survived the strike with terrible burns and bleeding. Omar, who was buried, also had a fractured pelvis and broken legs.
On June 6, 2025, Rivault filed a massive lawsuit in France because her two little grandkids—who were French citizens—were murdered by Israeli men in Gaza. Because those kids were French, France legally had to look into it. But instead of actually holding anyone accountable, the French government has “investigated” for months to see whether her young grandchildren’s murders were a “war crime” or not. Meanwhile, no one in the French government has gotten Omar out of Gaza.
The votes that paid for the weapons
House Bill, H.R. 6126 (House): Emergency supplemental appropriations for Israel