Israeli Army Kills Abu Taima Family of Five in Khan Yunis Bombardment

Early Friday, the Israeli army killed a Palestinian family of five during a bombardment that targeted a tent in the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, where the Abu Taima family had taken refuge.

“In light of the difficult humanitarian conditions endured by residents of the Gaza Strip, displaced families are forced to live in cemeteries, such as the family of Mazen Younis and his ten children, who found no shelter other than a graveyard in Mawasi, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip”

Al-Jazeera Net

Senego said the couple and their three young children, aged 8, 6, and 4, had fled their home east of Khan Younis because of Israeli attacks, and medical staff confirmed the deaths after bodies were recovered from the rubble at dawn.

Al-Jazeera Net

Senego also reported that Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Younis was targeted by Israeli warplanes, with two separate strikes hitting a house but no casualty toll immediately confirmed.

In another incident, Senego said an Israeli drone dropped a bomb near civilians gathered near a cemetery in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, and no victims were reported.

Senego further stated that since October 2023, the conflict has killed nearly 51,400 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children.

In Khan Yunis, جريدة القدس described the displacement of Mazen Younis, whose ten-member family found no refuge except the cemetery in the Austrian neighborhood of the Mawasi area.

The article said the family head returned from a medical treatment trip in the West Bank in 2025 and found his wife and children living in a makeshift dwelling inside the cemetery, where they lacked basic necessities for a dignified life.

Senego

جريدة القدس reported that for more than a year and a half, the family lived in a primitive tent surrounded by tattered canvas barriers, with insects, rodents, and scorpions threatening the lives of young children.

Al-Jazeera Net said the Israeli aggression forced the Younis family to flee from the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Younis to various areas until they settled in the cemetery of the Austrian neighborhood in Mawasi, Khan Younis.

Al-Jazeera Net added that for a year and a half, the family lived inside the cemetery lacking the most basic necessities of life, and that Mazen laments his children fetch water and tire themselves instead of going to school.

جريدة القدس reported that Mazen Younis suffers from heart disease and sharp weight loss, dropping from 120 kilograms to 67 kilograms, and attributed the decline to his psychological state, malnutrition, and helplessness in meeting his children's basic needs.

“The tragedy of displacement in the Gaza Strip takes its harshest form in the story of Mazen Younis, a resident who found no refuge from the ravages of Israeli aggression except the cemetery in the Austrian neighborhood of the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis”

Al-Jarida al-Quds

The same source said Mazen's young daughters bear burdens beyond their years, going out daily on arduous journeys to fetch water and secure meals from charitable takayas, and instead of attending school they spend long hours in queues.

Al-Jazeera Net said Mazen relies on his young daughters to fetch water even if it is not fit for drinking, and showed the family inside the cemetery where fabric partitions separate them from surrounding graves on all sides.

Al-Jazeera Net also reported that Mazen's wife said they do not live like other people, with no gas or other life necessities, and that their children spend their days fetching water and going to the Takiya to fetch food.

In addition, Al-Jazeera Net described a wider housing crisis in which other displaced people pitched tents inside cemeteries and began to crowd the living and the dead, in a scene it called very harsh especially for children.