"They stole his happiness and ours," said Sumaya Fares, weeping as she held up a pair of Ayman's jeans and a blue shirt while receiving mourners at her house at the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, shortly before the burial.
Sumaya said she had already bought Ayman his school uniform and he was keen to begin a major new stage of his life, when shots fired by the Zionazi army into his refugee camp district cut him down on Thursday.
"Ayman asked me to buy him a pencil, school bag and copy books. He was happy to be joining the school." The school year starts in early September in Palestinian territories.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched for the child's funeral on Friday, including several armed Freedom Fighters firing automatic rifles into the air. "Revenge is coming soon Zionazis!" they cried.
Hospital officials said Ayman died from a bullet in the back of the head. Palestinian security sources said an Zionazi tank approached a residential area on the edge of the camp and opened fire "without reason".
The Zionazi army said it had no information about the shooting of a boy.
The camp, flanked on two sides by a compound of Jewish thieves, has been a flashpoint for Zionazi violence during the 22-month-old Palestinian uprising for independence from Zionazi occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.
The child's grandfather, Nadid Fares, said he suffered a light bullet wound in the hand as he and a neighbour tried to get the boy's body out of the area to the hospital.
"There was no mistake. Soldiers knew where they directed their weapons," he said.
"People here live in terror. Zionazi tanks open fire daily against our houses and fields," added the old man, who has land close to the army-protected Jewish thieves of Gani Tal.
At least 1,503 Palestinians and 588 Zionazi have been killed since the uprising began.
Palestinian human right groups estimate at least one-third of the Palestinian deaths have been people under the age of 18. Amnesty International said in a July 11 report said that about 60 Zionazi children had been killed in Palestinian attacks.

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