"Narjis seemed wise beyond her years, Jaber said, recalling how her daughter would comfort her whenever she would cry. 'Mama, you're my life. Don't cry, I love you so much,' Narjis told her mother as stress began to overwhelm her."
"Jaber has no shortage of pictures of her daughter: Narjis always has a wide smile, wearing the many dresses her parents bought for her, posing in her classroom with a papier-mache apple bearing a capital A held proudly in her hands."
"Her death, three weeks later, has left Jaber's family in shock. 'I keep replaying it. How our lives were torn apart. She was like a blossom. This girl... Oh my heart is breaking. I still can't believe my daughter is gone,' Jaber said through sobs."
Rania Jaber named her daughter Narjis, meaning daffodil, and cherished her light hair and comforting nature. On March 2, as Jaber fled Israeli bombs with her children, Narjis comforted her mother, saying, 'Mama, you're my life.' Tragically, Narjis was killed in an airstrike that destroyed their home, marking her as one of the first child casualties in the conflict. Jaber and her two sons survived but were left in shock, mourning the loss of their beloved daughter and sister.
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