Yasser Abou Namous
ياسر أبو ناموس

Killed by Israel on 27 Oct 2023

Archivist Notes

Yasser Abu Namous, 31 years old, from Gaza city, was a Journalist editor at Al Sahel Media Foundation. He was killed on
October 27, 2023 along with his mother due to an Israeli airstrike on his family’s home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency Wafa, Al-Jazeera, and the Al-Quds network.

According to Airwars, the bombing resulted in the killing of 32-year-old Palestinian journalist Yasser Sobhi Hassan Abu Namous and his 55-year-old mother Nima Ibrahim Attiya Abu Namous.

International and local news such as Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, ​​Nabd and Quds News reported on the death of Yasser Abu Namous and his mother Nima Abu Namous.

Shehab Agency and Facebook user Azzam al abadleh shared a video and photographs from the day of the funeral that portrayed the community at a loss, including an image of the deceased Yasser in a white shroud with his face covered with blood. The video and photographs were reposted and shared by the international and local community, such as @Palestinecapti1, ​​Megaphone and the World News/@ferozwala.

Facebook account Megaphone wrote that Yasser Abu Namous was the twenty-fifth journalist killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the conflict. According to the sources, he was a son of the “martyr” Dr. Subhi Abu Namous and grew up without a father.

Relatives and friends took to social media to commiserate about the death of Yasser Abu Namous and his mother Nima Abu Namous. Facebook user Mohamme Eyad expressed grief about the passing of his beloved friend, “I swear it’s still early, my heart” he wrote in a Facebook post that was accompanied by a photograph of the two together.

Thaer Shabir and Fayez Kamel grieved the loss of their friend and classmate Yasser Abu Namous. “Friends rise one after another, more than 50 [of] my friends. I fear that we will lose our ability to withstand” read Fayez Kamel’s Facebook post.

Thaer Shabir shared an image of the late Yasser, a young man with a beard dressed in a black T-shirt, smiling at the camera.

The names of the two victims have been reconciled with published Palestinian Ministry of Health lists. With thanks to journalist Alexandre Horn from CheckNews for identifying relevant sources, and Data Tech for Palestine for centralising the datasets.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the airstrike to Israeli forces.

The local time of the incident is unknown.

The victims were named as:

Family members (2)

Yasser Sobhi Hassan Abu Namous ياسر صبحي أبو ناموس

Nima Ibrahim Attiya Abu Namous نعمة إبراهيم عطية أبوناموس
55 years old, his mother


Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Khan Younis (خان يونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.346149, 34.303899. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.

https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2024/10/4_journalists_gaza.pdf
https://www.shireen.ps/martyrs/show/202314976
https://airwars.org/civilian-casualties/ispt0646-october-27-2023/
https://cpj.org/data/people/yasser-abu-namous/
https://alqudsnews.net/post/199210/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D8%A3%D8%A8
https://wafa.ps/Pages/Details/82844
https://www.facebook.com/AJA.Palestine/photos/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3-%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%A8%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%81-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81-%D9%85%D9%86/662320089371754/