From today's Guardian newspaper...

A list of victims has been published of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims

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Rakan Hamdi Yahya Al-Najjar
10 years old

Israeli airstrike
23 May 2025
Rakan lived in Khan Younis with his parents Alaa and Hamdi, who were both doctors, and nine siblings. Colleagues and friends said the children held Egyptian citizenship and that Alaa and Hamdi had been planning to leave for Egypt and enrol their children at university in Cairo. On the morning of Rakan’s death Alaa had left the house to go to work as a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex. A few hours later an Israeli airstrike struck the family home, killing Rakan and eight of his siblings and severely injuring one of his brothers and his father. Hamdi, his father, died a few days later of his injuries. “My only hope is that those who were killed are not just names on paper,” said Alaa’s colleague at the Nasser complex, Dr Ahmed al-Farra.