Murdered!

Khaled Hussam Khaled Kilani was not a soldier, not a militant, not Hamas. He was a child. A well-dressed, proud young boy from Beit Lahia, Gaza.

He wore his tuxedo like he was preparing for a bright future. A school celebration, a wedding, a hopeful tomorrow. He looked sharp, standing tall with his hands in his pockets, full of the dignity every child deserves.

But Khaled wasn’t celebrated.
He wasn’t protected.
He was murdered, waiting for food.

On Friday, June 20th, 2025, Israeli forces opened fire near an aid distribution point west of Rafah. These so-called “safe points” have become anything but. They are not places of mercy, they are traps. Places where thousands of starving civilians are herded with the promise of food, only to be met with bullets and bombs.

That day, 84 people were killed across Gaza.
Khaled was one of 11 murdered at the Rafah aid point alone.

He was just a name on a list. But each name had a story. A family. Dreams. Laughter. A favourite colour. A fear of the dark. A hope to survive.

Khaled’s story is just one. I wish I could tell you all of them, I should tell you all of them. I am sorry, I am not able to! But I will do my best to honour a few whose stories I come across.

What is happening in Gaza is not just a war. It is not a "conflict." It is a systematic, ongoing genocide.

The world’s attention may have shifted to the Israeli attack on Iran and the unfolding regional consequences. But don’t let the smokescreen of new headlines make you forget: Gaza is still bleeding. Children are still starving. And “aid points” are being turned into kill zones.

This is not about defence.
This is about erasure.
About punishment. About collective humiliation. About making hunger itself into a weapon.

Here are just some of the names of those killed on that same day:

Southern Gaza Strip (22 people)

11 martyrs near aid distribution centres west of Rafah:

• Imran Muhammad Abdul Karim Abu Shakian

• Hazza Muhannad Hussam Al-Qadi

• Hamza Adeeb Ayadat Al-Sarsak

• Khaled Hussam Khaled Al-Kilani

• Wissam Mahmoud Ismail Bakir

• Muhammad Mahmoud Youssef Baraka

• Imad Ihab Ibrahim Zanoun

• Najlaa Fathi Ahmed Al-Qadi

• Alfat Youssef Muhammad Othman

• Sami Jamal Al-Badi

• Hussein Khalil Hussein Al-Suri

5 people killed in Israeli shelling targeting various areas in Khan Younis:

• Rafif Alaa Khalil Al-Brim (Mawasi area)

• Muhammad Bilal Hassan Qudaih (Mawasi area)

• Muhammad Tayseer Awad Hassanein (Khan Younis Al-Balad)

• Nashwa Akram Muhammad Al-Brim (Bani Suhaila)

• Sanaa Muhammad Al-Siqali (Al-Satr Al-Gharbi)

4 people succumbed to injuries earlier in Khan Younis:

• Karam Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Najjar

• Muhammad Fuad Kamel Hamdan

• Ahmed Abdel Nasser Hassan Shahin

• Marwa Mahfouz Muhammad Al-Sharif

2 corpses recovered from the Ma'an area east of Khan Younis:

• Bassem Ahmed Abu Naja

• Suleiman Ibrahim Abu Naja

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Central Gaza Strip (37 people)

12 people killed in an Israeli air strike on the Ayyash family house west of Deir Al-Balah:

• Yousef Rami Ayyash

• Taghreed Yousef Ayyash

• Hamza Yousef Ayyash

• Suhaib Yousef Ayyash

• Naima Musa Jabr Ayyash

• Bilal Yousef Muhammad Ayyash

• Ahmed Yousef Ayyash

• Mahmoud Yousef Ayyash

• Yousef Muhammad Ayyash

• Wafaa Muhammad Ayyash (Al-Arqan)

• Reem Tayseer Ayyash

• Tasneem Tayseer Ayyash

23 people killed and over 120 wounded near the Netzarim axis while waiting for aid (names currently unknown)

2 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Adini family house near Al-Mazra'a Street, south of Deir al-Balah (names currently unknown)

Gaza City (25 people)

2 people succumbed to injuries from the previous day’s Israeli bombing near Al-Zaharneh Tower on Al-Jalaa Street:

• Naji Quneitah

• Hamza Quneitah

2 people killed in an Israeli strike on a group of civilians near Al-Helou Hospital (names currently unknown)

7 people killed near Sheikh Radwan Cemetery, including a child:

• Anas Kamal Al-Yaziji

• Ghassan Omar Al-Yaziji

• Omar Saber Al-Yaziji
  (4 names not yet confirmed)

2 people, one of them a child, killed in a strike on a house in Al-Tuffah neighbourhood:

• Abdul Majeed Al-Sharafi

• Basil Abdul Majeed Al-Sharafi

3 people killed in a strike west of Al-Oyoun intersection on Al-Nasr Street (names not yet available)

2 people killed on Al-Yarmouk Street:

• Adam Fouad Jaarour

• Mahmoud Nizam Al-Mashharawi

7 people from the Najjar family killed near the Darabiyah roundabout in Al-Nasr neighbourhood:

• Talal al-Najjar

• Ahmad al-Najjar (his son)

• Isaac al-Najjar

• Ahmad Khalid al-Najjar

• Ismael al-Najjar

• Ali Ramy al-Najjar
  (One additional name pending)

Each name.
Each story.
Each life.

Do not forget them, do not forgive their murder.

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