Khaled Saeed Mansour

Their life

Khaled Saeed Mansour, 47, was the senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades in the southern Gaza Strip when he was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on August 6, 2022. As one of PIJ's most prominent military leaders, Mansour had risen through the ranks of the armed resistance movement during Gaza's successive wars with Israel. His death came during Operation "Breaking Dawn," Israel's three-day offensive against PIJ that left 49 Palestinians dead.

The lethal strike occurred at 21:30 when Israeli F-16s fired six missiles at Mansour's safehouse - a three-story residential building in Rafah's crowded refugee camp. The attack, conducted without warning, completely destroyed the structure and severely damaged seven adjacent homes. Alongside Mansour, the strike killed his two lieutenants - Ziad al-Mudallal (35) and Raafat al-Zamili (41) - and four civilians: a 14-year-old boy, a mother and son, and a young woman. Thirty-five others were wounded in the blast, including 18 children.

Khaled Saeed Mansour, 47, was the senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades in the southern Gaza Strip when he was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on August 6, 2022. As one of PIJ's most prominent military leaders, Mansour had risen through the ranks of the armed resistance movement during Gaza's successive wars with Israel. His death came during Operation "Breaking Dawn," Israel's three-day offensive against PIJ that left 49 Palestinians dead.

The lethal strike occurred at 21:30 when Israeli F-16s fired six missiles at Mansour's safehouse - a three-story residential building in Rafah's crowded refugee camp. The attack, conducted without warning, completely destroyed the structure and severely damaged seven adjacent homes. Alongside Mansour, the strike killed his two lieutenants - Ziad al-Mudallal (35) and Raafat al-Zamili (41) - and four civilians: a 14-year-old boy, a mother and son, and a young woman. Thirty-five others were wounded in the blast, including 18 children.

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How they died

He was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Khaled Saeed Mansour was killed by blast trauma and crush injuries sustained when Israeli warplanes struck his residential building with six precision missiles, causing catastrophic structural collapse. His body was recovered from the rubble 8 hours post-strike.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Khaled Saeed Mansour, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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