The Palestinian Child Whose Head Was Blown Off By Israel’s Rafah Strike Has Been Named As An 18-Month-Old Boy
The beheaded child in the viral video has since been named as Ahmed Al-Najjar, an 18-month-old baby.
The Palestinian boy whose head was blown off when Israel defied the International Court of Justice and bombed a “safe” camp in Rafah has been identified.
After the bombing on May 26, a video circulating social media showed a father holding up the body of a beheaded child in the aftermath of the strike on the camp in Rafah as fires burned around him.
The boy in the video has since been named as Ahmed Al-Najjar, an 18-month-old baby.
The Israeli strike also killed Ahmed’s mother, Faten, his sister, Huda and his brother Arkan, according to an AJ+ interview with the father.
The only remaining members of Ahmed’s family are his father, Abdel Hafez and his two brothers, Mohamed and Yamen.
Ahmed’s brother, Mohamed, saw his younger brother with his head and leg blown off, and the family buried him without his head.
The Al-Najjar family had been forcibly displaced from Khan Younis and moved to the Tal Al-Sultan camp, which Israeli forces had designated as a “safe” area a week before the strike.
Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 children, since Oct. 7.
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