Raafat Saleh Al-Zamili

Their life

Raafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, known by his honorific "Sheikh Eid," was a 41-year-old Palestinian killed in an Israeli targeted airstrike on the Rafah Refugee Camp during the August 2022 Gaza offensive. As a companion of Khaled Mansour, the southern commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades, Al-Zamili was among three militants intentionally targeted in the nighttime attack that also claimed four civilian lives. The strike, conducted without warning at 21:30 on August 6, obliterated the residential building where he was located, with rescue crews recovering his body from the rubble by dawn.

Raafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, known by his honorific "Sheikh Eid," was a 41-year-old Palestinian killed in an Israeli targeted airstrike on the Rafah Refugee Camp during the August 2022 Gaza offensive. As a companion of Khaled Mansour, the southern commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades, Al-Zamili was among three militants intentionally targeted in the nighttime attack that also claimed four civilian lives. The strike, conducted without warning at 21:30 on August 6, obliterated the residential building where he was located, with rescue crews recovering his body from the rubble by dawn.

Al-Zamili's death occurred during Israel's Operation "Breaking Dawn," a three-day military campaign that resulted in 49 Palestinian fatalities. While Israeli authorities identified him as an associate of militant leadership, the attack's collateral damage - including the deaths of 14-year-old Mohammad Hassouna, 30-year-old Ismail Dweik and his 50-year-old mother Hana', and 30-year-old Alaa' al-Tahrawi - ex

How they died

He was killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip

Raafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, known as "Sheikh Eid," died from multiple catastrophic trauma injuries sustained during an Israeli airstrike on his residential building in the Rafah Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip, on August 6, 2022. The attack, which involved six high-precision missiles, caused immediate structural collapse, subjecting occupants to lethal blast effects, crushing forces, and thermal injuries.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Raafat Saleh Al-Zamili, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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