The Nine-Year Spiral: How Parental Abandonment and System Failure Led to the Sharqiya Double Child Murder

A heartbreaking case centers on two children, Nada and Abdullah, whose lives unraveled after their parents’ divorce and new marriages. Their father, Ismail, remarried a woman named Sahar, who began abusing the children while he turned a blind eye. The abuse escalated until Abdullah was strangled with an electrical wire, at first passed off as an accident involving his sister. Three weeks later, Nada was found hanged, ruled a suicide. The truth only surfaced when a cousin revealed a secret Nada had shared — that Sahar had killed both siblings. This led to Sahar’s arrest, conviction, and eventual death sentence for the murders.