On October 9th, 2023, at approximately 11:30 PM, 40-year-old Abdullah Ahmed Mahmoud Abu Saif was killed in an alleged Israeli strike on his house that happened without prior warning, according to the local sources. Twitter/X user @16_gouda shared video footage of a destroyed house on his account.

Mahmoud Abu Youssef confirmed his brother’s passing on Facebook, writing that he received the news of Abdullah Abu Saif’s death “with great sadness”.

According to the Twitter/X sources @gnnanow and @16_gouda, Abdullah Ahmed Abu Saif was from Hebron, but was deported to Gaza after he had been released from an Israeli prison in the framework of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal in 2011, also known Wafa al-Ahrar. Details concerning his imprisonment are not available within the sources, but there is no indication from the sources that Abdullah was currently militant.

Only one source, the Facebook account of Abu Mahmoud Abu Seif, alleged that the strike can be attributed to the Israeli military, therefore Airwars has classified the strike status as “single source claim”.

Where possible, the names of the victims have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) lists, which include national ID numbers. Since October 26, 2023, the MoH has released eight lists, along with an additional list of medical professionals, which was released on September 17, 2024. Airwars is matching individuals to the first list where their name appeared. In regard to this incident, the name was matched to the first “Palestinian Ministry of Health List of Fatalities in Gaza”, which was released on October 26, 2023.