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During the night of June 9, 2025, reports indicated that at least three paramedics from Gaza’s medical services and a journalist were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike and/or tank artillery “double-tap” attack while attempting to recover bodies from a house previously bombed. The attack reportedly struck a residence in the Al-Mahatta area on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Multiple local outlets, including Quds and AlAraby TV, reported on X that the paramedics killed were 45-year-old Hussein Abd Suleiman Muhaisen (Abu Faisel), 18-year-old Baraa Fares Afanah, and 37-year-old Wael Al-Attar. They were reportedly accompanied by journalist 19-year-old Moamen Abu Auf, who was also killed in the strike.
@qudsn reported on the killing of Hussein and included an image of him, a middle-aged man, being interviewed previously while wearing his green EMS polo. Hassan Alnmer mourned the loss of Hussein, referring to him as a “knight of the medical services”. According to Eslam Elsabaa, a video of Hussein helping a girl who was trapped in a fire within a school she was sheltering went viral a few months before the attack. In the video, Hussein can be seen holding a little girl covered in dust who is extremely distressed and asking her about her family members.
@qudsn also acknowledged the death of young paramedic Baraa and included an image of him wearing his green EMS vest. A Facebook post from Hassan Shbeir offered condolences to his friend Fares Afana on the death of his heroic son Baraa.
Paramedic Wael was pictured posing and smiling in his green EMS polo in posts reporting on his death. A video posted by journalist Anas Al-Sharif, the two young daughters of Wael can be seen crying over the loss of their father while being comforted by his paramedic colleagues, and later footage shows a large crowd mourning over the body of Wael.
Fellow paramedic Abo Kaled wrote about the immense pain of losing his “manager and the love of my heart” Hussein, his “dear colleague and companion” Wael and his colleague Baraa, and included many pictures of himself with the victims performing their paramedic duties.
Additional local sources including @alsahera_ar posted about journalist Moamen who was also killed, and included multiple images of him in his press vest. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Moamen was a freelance photographer and had “more than 78,000 followers on his Instagram account, where he posted news updates, photos, and videos from northern Gaza”. Moamen’s brother Majd told CPJ that “Moamen went with the paramedics to document the recovery of the martyrs and wounded, but minutes after their arrival, a tank targeted the apartment. Medical teams were initially unable to retrieve the bodies of Abu AlOuf and the others due to the Israeli army’s refusal to grant access. The following morning, civil defense and rescue crews recovered their remains, which were found in fragments. Moamen was torn to pieces as a result of the shell hitting him directly.”
The article by CPJ documenting the killing of Moamen mentioned that in addition to his killing and the killing of the paramedics, “several of the injured from the earlier shelling” were killed. Therefore, a maximum toll of six has been recorded to account for this.
Where sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the attack to the Israeli military.
Where possible, names have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) lists, which include national ID numbers. Airwars is matching individuals to the first list where their name appeared. In regard to this incident, names are matched to the tenth ‘Palestinian Ministry of Health List of Fatalities in Gaza’ list, which was released on July 16, 2025.
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Reports of the incident mention Jaffa Street (شارع يافا) in the Tuffah neighbourhood (حي التفاح) to the east of Gaza City (مدينة غزة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.512334, 34.473130. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.