One Child a Day: Remembering Gaza’s Children

[Wedonttalkaboutboris]

I’ll be using this thread to remember one child each day who has been killed in Gaza.

This isn’t for political debate, just a space to honour the names, faces, and stories that risk being lost in the noise. I’m here as I see this as a matter of human dignity and ethics, not just politics or conflict.

I kindly ask all political debate be kept to the many threads on the ‘conflict in the middle east’ board.

I’ll post one child per day, with whatever information is available- name, age, photo if possible, a sentence about who they were. Please feel free to follow quietly or respond with a candle 🕯️ or heart 💔.

If anyone else would like to post a child a day to remember, please feel free. I ask that posts stick to verified information, keep the tone respectful, and focus on remembrance rather than politics.

If this is too heavy, that’s entirely understandable. Please just scroll past.

🕯️ Mohammed Zakaria Asfour (16 months)

Age: 1 year, 4 months
Date of death: 10th August 2025
Location: Gaza Strip

Mohammed Zakaria Asfour died due to severe malnutrition and brain-related problems caused by the lack of medication and diagnostic equipment under the ongoing blockade on Gaza.

Despite his young age, Mohammed had endured nothing but war, hunger, and hardship during his short life. His condition and death have been confirmed by medical staff at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and reported by journalist Amr Tabash.

🕯️Jihad Khaled Abu Amer (age 2)

Age: 2 years
Date of death: October 23, 2023
Location: Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip

Jihad Khaled Abu Amer was born on May 21, 2021, during the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Tragically, he was martyred in an airstrike on the Salhi Towers in the Nuseirat refugee camp on October 23, 2023.

His father expressed profound grief, stating, “My beloved son ‘Jihad,’ this month was heavy on me, my dear. Perhaps you don’t know that I miss your sweet voice, enchanting my ears when you call me, ‘Dad.’”

Thank you for continuing to post i know it must be difficult but it's so important

Yes, Thanks so much @Wedonttalkaboutboris , all your effort is appreciated and shines a much needed light in these dark times ❤️

🕯️ Yahya, Mousa & Ibrahim Jadallah (ages 5, 3 and 18 months)

Ages:

• Yahya Jadallah (5 years old)
• Mousa Jadallah (3 years old)
• Ibrahim Jadallah (18 months old)

Location: Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip
Date of death: 9 July 2025
Cause of death: Yahya, Mousa and Ibrahim were brothers. They were killed alongside their mother, Asya Za’rab, in an airstrike targeting their home. The only surviving immediate family member is their father, Majdi Jadallah.

So many precious children.
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🕯️ Sarah and Yasmine Abu Al-Jabeen

Ages: unpublished as of yet
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date of death: August 13, 2025
Cause of death: Sisters killed in an airstrike on their home in Gaza City. Their mother, Soha Tafesh, was photographed carrying Sarah’s body at a cemetery in Gaza City.

🕯️Mohammed Nidal Hisham Attallah (0 years old)

🕯️Kanan Bakr (age 1)

Age: 1 year old
Location: Western Gaza City, Martyrs Street
Date of death: August 15, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike that targeted a tent sheltering his family.
Reported by: Al Jazeera and Anadolu Agency

🕯️ Rawan Yousef Al-Batta (aged 6 months)

Age: 6 months
Location: Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip
Date of death: August 16, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike targeting a tent sheltering her family. Her entire family were also killed.
Reported by: Palestinian Ministry of Health, humanitarian organizations

🕯️The Hussnien Children (ages 2, 5, 8, 7, 9)

Names & Ages:

• Juman Fahim Hassanein (9 years old)
• Yaman Fahim Hassanein (7 years old)
• Maria Fahim Hassanein (8 years old)
• Bissan Fahim Hassanein (5 years old)
• Yaffa Fahim Hassanein (2 years old)

Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date of death: 7 December 2023
Cause of death: All were killed when an airstrike struck their home; the entire nuclear family was lost in the attack.

Legacy:
Juman, Maria, Yaman, Bissan, and little Yaffa were not just siblings—they were harbingers of wonder, laughter, and possibility in a world too often marked by suffering. Their mother, Mona, was a poet whose creativity inspired her children.

Sources:

• Palestinian Martyrs Instagram page via @palestinianmartyrs: Image and family names.
• “Palestinians Are Not Numbers” blog: Confirms full names, ages, and circumstances, including the bombing of their home.

🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯 for them.

Still reading every day 💔

Thank you for posting.

🕯️ Widad al-Tattari (age 1)

Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date of death: June 30, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike targeting the al-Baqa Café. The strike resulted in at least 41 fatalities, including Widad, and left over 75 others injured. Widad never met her father, who was killed 2 days before she was born.
Reported by: Palestinian Ministry of Health, humanitarian organisations

🕯️ Amna al-Mufti (aged 12)

Location: Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip
Date of death: July 13, 2025
Cause of death: Killed by a drone strike while carrying a gallon of drinking water for her family.
Reported by: Gaza Notifications, humanitarian organizations

Amna al-Mufti, a 12-year-old girl from Jabalia, tragically lost her life on July 13, 2025, when a drone targeted her while she was collecting water for her family. The missile strike, which the Israeli military later attributed to a “technical error,” resulted in the deaths of six children.

🕯️Youssef al-Safadi (age 6 weeks)

Approx. 6 weeks old (around 40 days)
Location: Gaza City, Al-Shifa Medical Complex
Date of death: July 22, 2025
Cause: Died from malnutrition amid critical shortages of baby formula and food in Gaza. His death came amid a wave of hunger-related fatalities, with 15 people starving to death in a single day, according to medical officials, including Youssef and a 13-year-old child.

Sources:

• Reuters, “Baby boy starves to death in Gaza as hunger spreads, medics say” (July 22, 2025) → Link

🕯️ Baraa al Mufti

• Age: not publicly confirmed
• Location: Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Central Gaza
• Date of death: not verified
• Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike
• Reported by: Reuters, The Guardian, Washington Post

Baraa was the younger brother of Amna al-Mufti, who was killed earlier. He and his mother, Najlaa, were tragically killed in a separate airstrike in Nuseirat Refugee Camp.

🕯 Ali Hammam Hassan (aged 4)

• Age: 4 years old
• Location: Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip
• Date of death: August 13, 2025
• Cause of death: Injured in the bombing of a tent sheltering displaced families; died later of his wounds.

Source: Local Gaza reporting and eyewitness accounts, corroborated by memorial pages for martyrs.

🕯️Farah Muhammad Ahmed Ghanem

Age: Not publicly specified
Location: Al Bureij Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip
Date of death: August 15, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike that targeted her family home. Her siblings Amr, Ranim, Rim, and her parents were also killed. A young child was reported as the sole survivor

The attack, which occurred at approximately 2:10 a.m., resulted in the complete destruction of their residence, with only a small child surviving the ordeal.

This thread is just devastating. I'm a bit lost for words at the inhumanity in this world. Thank you again OP

🕯️ Khor Al-Jamal

Age: Not publicly specified
Location: Central Gaza Strip
Date of death: August 8, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a missile strike alongside her sister Sham Al-Jamal

🕊️ Sarah Tafesh

Age: Not publicly specified
Location: Gaza Strip
Date of death: August 17, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a missile strike on her family home, alongside her unborn sibling.

Family: Mother: Amani Tafesh (pregnant at the time), Father: Mahmoud Abu Daf, Unborn sibling

Source: Verified social media reports and humanitarian sources documenting civilian casualties in Gaza, August 17, 2025.

This is so heartbreaking, thank you for sharing. Seeing these photos makes you want to scoop them up and protect them, to take them to safety. But we can’t. When I see those gorgeous children’s faces with all their potential two poems come to mind “Child of Our Time” by Eavan Boland about a child killed in the Dublin bombings but equally resonates with the murdered children of Gaza and “Child Burial” by Paula Meehan which reflects the utter heartbreak of a mother losing her child. I can’t imagine what their parents have gone through, how do you recover from that.

Child Of Our Time by Eavan Boland

Yesterday I knew no lullaby
But you have taught me overnight to order
This song, which takes from your final cry
Its tune, from your unreasoned end its reason;
Its rhythm from the discord of your murder,
Its motive from the fact you cannot listen.

We who should have known how to instruct
With rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleep
Names for the animals you took to bed,
Tales to distract, legends to protect,
Later an idiom for you to keep
And living, learn, must learn from you, dead.

To make our broken images rebuild
Themselves around your limbs, your broken
Image, find for your sake whose life our idle
Talk has cost, a new language. Child
Of our time, our times have robbed your cradle.
Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.

🕯️ Muna Fayyad

Age: Not publicly confirmed
Location: Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip
Date of death: 17 August 2025
Cause of death: Killed by shrapnel from shelling while playing in front of her house.

Sources for verification:

• Social media eyewitness accounts—e.g., Mosab Abu Toha’s post on X/Twitter
• Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): Reported the martyrdom of “Minni Asim Fayyad,” a Palestinian girl who was killed by shrapnel in the Khan Yunis bombing early on 17 August 2025.

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