Ibrahim Nofal is a photojournalist, known as "Nofal", who documentes many crimes, killings, and destruction in Gaza, while his own family were several times victims of the targeted airstrikes since October 7, 2023. His sister is the vlogger Jannat Nofal. And he is friend of journalist Anas Al-Sharif. His father Ryad is a veteran photographer who lost 30 relatives in the genocide.

On October 30, 2023, the Israeli aircraft bombed his family's four-story house, resulting in the loss of 12 members of his family and leaving 30 injured, being in urgent need for medical care, which is scarce in Gaza.

On October 7, 2024, Ibrahim Nofal lost other survivors of his family in the Abu Qamar supermarket massacre, including his brother Omar Ryad Abdullah Nofal,who was killed in the **second strike while rescuing **his neighbors from the first strike.

He wrote an eulogy where he remembered how his brother was patient in this first tragedy : *As always, I was sad that I was not with your children in such a situation. From the beginning of the war, you were my companion and we carried each other. We ran to help the entire camp. I will never forget the day when the house was bombed on us and you and I got out from under the rubble to help your children and our families. I will never forget how much you were Strong, patient and content. I am sorry for your departure. I am sorry for everything, my brother. May God have mercy on you and treat you well and make your abode in heaven."