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.

🕯️ Juri Lafi (age 4)

Location: Al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: August 27, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike targeting displaced persons’ tents.
Sources:

• Quds News Network
• Wafa News English
• The Daily File

🕯️ Sila Saber Mushtaha (age 2)

Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: September 4, 2025
Cause of death: Killed when her family’s tent was bombed.

Sources:

• The Daily File
• Eyewitness confirmation from GazaMartyrs noting that a 2-year-old Sila Saber Mushtaha died when a missile struck her family’s tent. (x.com GazaMartyrs)

All those beautiful, innocent children.💔

Thanks @Wedonttalkaboutboris for showing the individual personalities behind the statistics. They need to be remembered.

We will remember.
🕯🕯🕯❤️

🕯️ Jaber Muhammad Al-Ashhab (10 days old)

Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: September 4, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a bombing of displaced persons’ tents.

Sources:

• The Daily File
• Winnipeg Free Press - quoting Gaza Health Ministry confirmation that Shifa Hospital received the body of Jabr Al-Ashhab, 10 days old, after the strike.

🕯️ Adam Ahmed Owidah

Age: Not specified
Location: Al Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: September 2, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a bombing of a water truck in Al Mawasi, Khan Yunis.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Adam Ahmed Owidah
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
• Palestine Times News on Instagram

🕯️ Muamen (Momen) Yasser Abu Lebda

Age: Not specified
Location: Near an aid distribution centre, south of Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: August 2025 (reported August 11, 2025)
Cause of death: Killed by gunfire near an aid distribution point. He was reported as a child who was shot while waiting for or near humanitarian assistance.

Sources:

• X / RefugeesPS: urgent post reporting the child Muamen (Momen) Yasser Abu Lebda was killed by gunfire near an aid centre south of Khan Yunis.
• Instagram posts showing tribute/confirmation and photos.
• Local Facebook / Khan Yunis page reporting the martyrdom of Momen Yasser Abu Lebda near the aid centre.
• Palestine TV video showing funeral / farewells for families including Abu Lebda victims.

🕯️ Jamal Fadi Al-Najjar (age 6)

Location: Gaza Strip
Date: August 12, 2025
Cause of death: Died from famine and malnutrition.

Sources:

• Al Mayadeen English — reports that Jamal Fadi Al-Najjar, 6 years old, died at Al-Nasser Medical Complex due to famine and malnutrition.
• Safa.ps — reported by local health sources.

Just so incredibly sad that these children were denied a chance at life. Beautiful children, thank you for continuing to post.

I get so sad and angry sometimes that I just feel unable to engage with the CITME forum but its so important that we don't forget about the children affected and let them just become another number.

My children are of Lebanese heritage and the children here remind me often of my children and I think its only a matter of the luck of geography of our birth or this could be us experiencing the living hell that Palestinians endure.

🕯️ Sarah Malaka (age 11)

Location: Al-Zeitoun, Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: August 6, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a bombing. She was one of the children killed during the heavy strikes on the Al-Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Sources:

• The Daily File — Sarah Malaka
• https://www.thedailyfile.org/post/sarah-malaka
• Instagram reel / local footage corroborating the event and funeral tributes.
• Facebook tribute posts / family memorials.
• Context on strikes in Al-Zeitoun during early August 2025.

🕯️ Roze Mahmoud Tamraz

Age: Infant (exact age not specified)
Location: Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip
Date: 15th September 2025
Cause of death: Killed alongside her parents when their tent/home in Deir al-Balah was struck. Roze means “rose” in Arabic.

Sources:

• X / GazaMartyrs — announcement naming Roze Mahmoud Tamraz and reporting the family was killed in Deir al-Balah.
• X / Sa7atPlBreaking — Arabic post reporting the death of Mahmoud Tamraz, his wife and daughter Roze after their home was targeted in Deir al-Balah.
• X / AlQastalps — local outlet sharing images and report of the Tamraz family deaths in Deir al-Balah.
• Instagram posts showing local aftermath / tent strike footage referencing the Tamraz family.
• Palestinian Information Centre / Palinfo Arabic posts corroborating reports of the strike and family casualties.

🕯️ Habiba Ma’ruf (6 months)

Age: 6 months old
Date of death: August 6, 2025
Location: Gaza City (displaced persons’ tent, Al-Zeitoun)
Cause of death: Killed in a bombing of a displaced persons tent.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Habiba Ma’ruf
• Associated press reports from Gaza, August 2025

Thank you for continuing to post and honour these beautiful children, we will never forget ♥️

🕯️Aline Al-Mahalawi (age 4)

Age: 4 years old
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: July 23, 2025
Cause of death: Struck by shrapnel from bombardment. The fragment penetrated her head and fractured her skull.

Aline was only four. She had lost her mother, Zahra, the year before- in April 2024.

Sources:

• The Daily File — Aline Al-Mahalawi
• Pax Christi International — “How Many More? The Story of Aline, One of Gaza’s Thousands of Lost Children”
• Anabaptist World — “The short life and death of Aline Al-Mahalawi”

All those innocents.
All that love.
All that potential.

Gone.💔

They are a loss to the whole world.

🕯️ Lara Fahd Harb (age 10)

Age: 10 years old
Location: Al-Zeitoun, Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: July 19, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in a bombing.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Lara Fahd Harb

Beautiful innocent children robbed of a future, heartbreaking 💔. Thank you for putting names and faces to the shocking statistics. A generation lost but not forgotten may their little souls fly high.

🕯️ Naya Jouda (15 months)

Age: 1 year and 3 months old
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: September 12, 2025
Cause of death: Killed during attacks in Gaza.

She had already endured the loss of her mother and sisters about a year ago, and now her own life has been tragically cut short.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Naya Jouda

🕯️ Omar, Ghada, Batoul, and Ahmed Nazir Shaaban (ages 11, 10, 7 and 1)

Ages: 11 (Omar), 10 (Ghada), 7 (Batoul), 1 (Ahmed)
Location: Al-Nasr neighbourhood, near Saraya Square, north of Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: October 8, 2023
Cause of death: Killed when an airstrike hit their family home near Saraya Square. Their father (Nazir Shawqi “Abu Omar” Shaaban), a medical and laboratory specialist, and their mother (Enas Riyad Shaaban) also died in the same strike.

Sources:

• Airwars — ISPT0020 “House for the Abu Shaaban family near Saraya Square … destroyed … entire family … including children aged 11, 10, 7, 1.”
• Tweets and social media posts quoting family members confirming names and ages.

🕯️ Rawiya Khader (age 2)

Age: 2
Location: Nuseirat Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip
Date: June 25, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Rawiya Khader

🕯️ Muhammad Hussein Hassan Hijazi
(age 5)

Age: 5 years old
Location: Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: July 16, 2025
Cause of death: Killed when an aircraft bombed a tent sheltering displaced persons in the Asda’a area, Khan Yunis, without prior warning.

Sources:

• Genocide in Gaza — profile of Mohammed Hussein Hassan Hijazi, including age, location, and circumstance (“Israeli occupation aircraft targeted a tent sheltering displaced persons …”).
• The Daily File — original remembrance entry.

🕯️ Majd Ma’ruf Al-Hout (age 5)

Age: 5 years old
Location: Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: July 19, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Majd Ma’ruf Al-Hout

🕯️ Youssef Al-Hajjar

Age: Not specified
Location: Gaza City, Gaza Strip
Date: September 18, 2025
Cause of death: Killed while his family was trying to flee south from Gaza City during ongoing Israeli attacks.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Youssef Al-Hajjar

🕯️ Khadija and Mohammed Zuhair Al-Hams (age 4 and 5)

Ages: 5 (Khadija), 4 (Mohammed)
Location: Al Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip
Date: September 19, 2025
Cause of death: Killed in an airstrike on a tent sheltering displaced persons in Al Mawasi. Despite being designated a “safe zone,” the area was targeted, resulting in multiple casualties, including Khadija and Mohammed.

Sources:

• The Daily File – Khadija and Mohammed Zuhair Al-Hams
• Liveuamap – Children Khadija and Mohammed Al-Hams were killed in an Israeli airstrike
• Quds News Network – Two young children, Khadija and Mohammed Al-Hams, were killed this afternoon in an Israeli airstrike

🕯️ Susan Ahmed Nahid Massoud (Age 4)

Age: 4 years old
Location: Gaza
Date: October 10, 2023
Details: Killed in an airstrike on her family home, along with her father and brothers.

🕯️ Rad’a Jad Jamil Al-Shaar (age 3)

• Age: 3 years old
• Location: Al-Bureij refugee camp, Gaza
• Date: September 21, 2025
• Details: Killed in the bombing of a UNRWA clinic.