Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qulaq
He was Killed by Israeli missile strikes.
On May 16, 2021, Israeli warplanes launched a series of powerful airstrikes on al-Wehda Street in Gaza City. Missiles struck several residential buildings where families were huddled together in fear. Ameen was killed instantly when his home was destroyed. The same strike also killed thirteen members of the al-Qulaq family, including children as young as one year old, wiping out nearly an entire lineage. The violence of the attack was such that medical and civil defense crews struggled to retrieve bodies from beneath the rubble for hours.
Biography
Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qulaq, 90, was a Palestinian elder from Gaza. He belonged to the well-known al-Qulaq family and lived on al-Wehda Street in Gaza City. Despite his advanced age, he remained surrounded by his family and community. His life, like many in Gaza, was marked by resilience amid decades of conflict and hardships under blockade. He was one of the oldest victims of the May 2021 Israeli assault on Gaza.
Born around 1931, Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qulaq lived through the Nakba of 1948, multiple wars, and decades of Israeli occupation and blockade on Gaza. At 90 years old, he represented one of the oldest generations in Gaza, a living witness to the history of displacement and continuous struggle of the Palestinian people. The al-Qulaq family was among the hardest hit during the May 2021 Israeli bombardment, losing thirteen members in a single night of airstrikes. Ameen was killed alongside his children, grandchildren, and relatives, symbolizing the devastating multigenerational impact of the assault.
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Ameen Mohammed Hamad al-Qulaq, 90, was killed by Israeli missiles in the al-Wehda Street, in Gaza city. Reham was also a computer engineer. The missile strikes killed thirteen members of the al-Qulaq family, ranging in age from 1 to 85, as they huddled in their homes in terror while the Israeli airstrikes continued throughout the night. Local Palestinians have reported hearing as many as 150 Israeli bombs during the night. One of the families wiped out by an Israeli missile Sunday morning was that of Riyad Hasan IshKinatna, who was pulled out of the rubble Sunday morning by rescue crews, barely alive, only to be told when he reached the hospital that his wife and five children were all killed in the Israeli attack.1 israelpalestinetimeline.org Open source