"He told his terrified daughters not to be scared. Then an airstrike killed him"
"Ahmed al-Mansi, who had a YouTube channel with his daughters, died in an airstrike at the weekend"
"Don’t be afraid, keep playing, it’s almost done, the Palestinian father repeats to his two girls as they scramble for cover when the Israeli war planes roar overhead.
"'Daddy,' they scream, hiding their heads under cushions.
"Just a few minutes before the strike, Ahmed al-Mansi, 35, films his two daughters, aged six and 12, playing with a magnetic fishing toy he had just bought them for Eid to distract them during Israel’s ferocious bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
"The video was posted last Wednesday on the family YouTube channel called 'Sarah and Hala stars', which over the last four months has documented the life of the girls in Gaza, including more recently the heavy airstrikes.
"The channel has garnered tens of thousands of views and elevated the family to a kind of celebrity status in the Strip, with many people saying it brought them comfort.
"But this video, where Ahmed films himself buying toys for the children, would be his last.
"Three days later he was killed in an Israeli strike."
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