World’s youngest ex-prisoner killed in Israeli strike on Gaza home
Yousef Al-Zaq, known as the world’s youngest former prisoner, was killed when Israeli forces targeted his family's apartment on Al-Thawra Street in central Gaza.
Yousef’s life began within the walls of an Israeli prison in 2008, as the son of Fatima Al-Zaq, a Palestinian prisoner who gave birth while detained.
Earlier, freed Palestinian prisoner Imad Mansour was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting displacement tents in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
On Tuesday, Hamas condemned the killing of six former prisoners who had previously been forcibly relocated to Gaza after being released by the Israeli regime.
The murdered prisoners were identified as Naji Abayat, Bilal Zaraa, Mahmoud Abu Sariya, Amjad Abu Arqoub, Riyad Asaliya, and Mahmoud Al-Dahbour.
All of them were killed when Israeli airstrikes struck tents sheltering displaced people in Zawayda, central Gaza, and Al Mawasi in Khan Younis.
The Gaza-based group called the killings a “vengeful and calculated crime” aimed at eliminating symbols of Palestinian resistance.
Hamas emphasized that these killings form part of a broader Israeli strategy of systematic executions targeting symbolic figures, wartime assassinations under the guise of “combat operations,” and ongoing efforts to suppress resistance leadership in both Gaza and the West Bank.
According to reports by Anadolu Agency, five of the victims were freed under a 2011 prisoner swap, and the sixth was among Palestinians exiled in 2002 from the Church of the Nativity siege in Bethlehem.
Hamas leader, Abdel Hakim Hanini, also commented on the assassination of the ex-prisoners, stating that it reflects a broader strategy by the Israeli regime to target and eliminate former prisoners.
“This is proof of deep-rooted Zionist hatred and the occupation’s continued policy of revenge and execution against those who resisted, endured, and survived years in the cells of oppression.”
Hanini also warned that such actions would not go without response: “These assassinations will not break our people or our liberated prisoners. Their blood will fuel continued resistance and deepen the confrontation with this usurping enemy.”
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