GAZA CITY: Palestinians paid tribute to the tiny boy who drowned while fleeing the Syrian war by building a sand sculpture of him Monday on a beach in the Gaza Strip.
The sculpture measuring a few metres (yards) in length depicts three-year-old Aylan Kurdi in the same position and with red and blue clothing like he wore when his lifeless body was found last week.
Aylans body was photographed lying face down in the sand near Bodrum, one of Turkeys prime tourist resorts, in a bleak image that rapidly went viral on social media.
The sand sculpture is located a short distance from where an Israeli strike killed four Gazan children as they played football during last years 50-day Gaza war.
When I saw this statue representing Aylan Kurdi, the child drowned while fleeing Syria, I felt a deep sadness and great emotion, said resident Arwa Arbijan.
It reminded me of the children of the Bakr family who were killed on the Gaza beach during the last war, she told AFP.
Last year on July 16, cousins Ahed Atef Bakr and Zakaria Ahed Bakr, both aged 10, nine-year-old Mohamed Ramez Bakr and 11-year-old Ismail Mohamed Bakr were playing on the beach in Gaza City when they were hit in two separate Israeli air strikes.
At the other end of the Mediterranean, dozens of people paid tribute to Aylan on a Rabat beach on Monday by re-enacting the heart-wrenching scene of how his body was found washed ashore. Agencies
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