Ahmad Khalil Hejazi al-Louh
He was killed by Israeli missile strike during an airstrike on the Gaza seaside near the Maldives Café.
Ahmad was killed by an Israeli missile strike that hit the vicinity of the Maldives Café at the Gaza seaside. The missile impact caused fatal injuries, and he died at the scene along with three other men. The strike was part of a wider wave of air attacks across Gaza City that day, which caused multiple civilian deaths and large-scale destruction of homes, businesses, and public facilities.
Biography
Ahmad Khalil Hejazi al-Louh, 24, was a resident of Gaza City who lost his life during the Israeli offensive on May 17, 2021. He was among the victims of an airstrike that struck a café at the Gaza seaside, an attack that also killed three other young men. His death came amid a series of heavy bombardments across the city, which targeted residential, commercial, and public facilities, leaving widespread destruction and high civilian casualties.
Ahmad Khalil Hejazi al-Louh, born and raised in Gaza City, was 24 years old at the time of his death. On May 17, 2021, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of intense airstrikes on various parts of Gaza City, striking both residential and commercial areas. One of the attacks targeted a popular seaside location near the Maldives Café, where Ahmad was present. The strike killed him instantly along with three others — Mohammed Jamal ‘Ali Abu Sam’an, 24, Mohammed Hasan Abu Sam’an, 32, and ‘Ali Waleed al-‘Abed Burais, 30. The same day’s bombardments also destroyed multiple residential and commercial buildings, severely damaged civilian infrastructure including the Ministry of Health headquarters, and added to the mounting death toll in Gaza. Ahmad’s death was part of a broader wave of violence that, by that date, had claimed the lives of at least 213 Palestinians, including many women and children, and injured thousands more.
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Ahmad Khalil Hejazi al-Louh, 24, was killed by Israeli missiles that struck a Cafe at Gaza seaside. The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR) said Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of airstrikes on various targets across the city. As a result, 4 Palestinians, including a girl, were killed and sixty-four others were wounded, including 11 women and twenty children. The PCHR added that a dead body of a woman from Abu al-‘Aouf family was retrieved from under the rubble of residential buildings that were bombarded in the Al-Wehda Street massacre.1 israelpalestinetimeline.org Open source