Hassan Abu Zuaiter

Their life

Hassan Munir Abu Zuaiter (14 November 1994 – 14 November 2023) was a Palestinian athlete, born in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza City, who was a physical education teacher and a player for the Friendship Club and the Palestinian national volleyball team. He won the championship of the Jawwal volleyball league in 2019 in the Gaza Strip.

Social media was abuzz with the news of his martyrdom and his friend Ibrahim and one of them wrote: "Friend Hassan Zuaiter joins his colleague and friend the martyr Ibrahim Qasi'a, glory be to God, as if the covenant is to be together, may God have mercy on you, Ibrahim, and have mercy on you, Hassan.

The Palestinian Volleyball Federation mourned him in a statement: "It is with great sadness and great pride that the Palestinian Volleyball Federation and the family of the game in the homeland mourn the martyrs of the national team and the Friendship Club, Hassan Zuaiter and Ibrahim Qusai'a, who were martyred following the barbaric shelling of Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip

How they died

He was assassinated on November 14, 2023, during the Israeli Air Force bombing of his house in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in response to the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.

Air Strike

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Hassan Abu Zuaiter, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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