Sharaf Yasser Dawas

Their life

Sharaf Yasser Youssef Dawas was a 13-year-old boy from Beit Lahiya Camp in northern Gaza. He was part of the Dawas family, a well-known Palestinian household that endured immense tragedy during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in October 2023.

Sharaf was a school-aged child, likely in his early teens, growing up amid the hardships of life under blockade and conflict. Despite the challenges surrounding him, he lived with the warmth of a large extended family. Friends and relatives remember Sharaf as kind, playful, and full of curiosity—like many children his age.

Sharaf Yasser Youssef Dawas was a 13-year-old boy from Beit Lahiya Camp in northern Gaza. He was part of the Dawas family, a well-known Palestinian household that endured immense tragedy during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in October 2023.

Sharaf was a school-aged child, likely in his early teens, growing up amid the hardships of life under blockade and conflict. Despite the challenges surrounding him, he lived with the warmth of a large extended family. Friends and relatives remember Sharaf as kind, playful, and full of curiosity—like many children his age.

On October 14, 2023, Sharaf was killed when Israeli aircraft struck his family's home in Beit Lahiya without prior warning. The airstrike resulted in the deaths of multiple members of the Dawas family, including children and adults. Sharaf was among the youngest martyrs of that day, his life cut tragically short in an instant.

His death, like that of so many Palestinian children, reflects the devastating toll the war has taken on Gaza’s youngest generation—those who should be growing up in peace, not becoming names on casualty lists. Sharaf is remembered as one of the many innocent victims of a war that has shattered countless families and futures.

How they died

Killed by airstrike

Sharaf Yasser Dawas was killed on October 14, 2023, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his family home in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Sharaf Yasser Dawas, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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