Key facts
- Majdi Nour Abu Ara has been confirmed dead by Israeli authorities.
- His death was confirmed 18 months after an Israeli drone strike on December 3, 2024.
- The family claims Israeli authorities concealed his fate for 18 months.
- Two other individuals were declared dead at the time of the strike.
- A wounded individual from the strike was taken from a hospital by Israeli forces.
The family of Palestinian man Majdi Nour Abu Ara has been informed that he died 18 months after Israeli forces targeted the vehicle he was traveling in with a drone strike north of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank. His father told Wafa news agency that the legal rights group HaMoked conveyed an Israeli High Court decision confirming his death, stating that Israeli authorities had concealed his fate for the intervening period.
The drone strike occurred on December 3, 2024, and at the time, Muhammad Samih Ghanem and Karam Hatem Abu Ara, who were also in the vehicle, were declared dead. Ayman Najeh Ghanem, who was wounded in the attack, was subsequently taken by Israeli special forces from a hospital in Nablus. Majdi Abu Ara’s whereabouts and condition remained unknown until his family received confirmation of his death on Sunday.
Separately, the provided additional sources detail the dire medical situation in Gaza, with wounded individuals trapped due to blocked medical evacuations. Baraa Abu Zaid, who fled Rafah and was critically wounded in a drone strike that killed two of her children, described the lack of medical care and the sealing of the Rafah crossing by Israel, preventing her and her son from receiving urgent surgery abroad. Her son later died from his wounds. The sources also recount a night of intense bombing in Gaza, where doctors at Nasser Hospital described receiving numerous casualties, including children and women, amid chaos and a collapse of the health system.