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Mother of journalist Ibrahim Nofal injured in Israeli strike in Gaza City

No.

20083

Date

21 June, 2025

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Original Social Media Post

"🚨BREAKING: An elderly woman was injured by shrapnel to the brain after an Israeli airstrike targeted the Nofel family home in Gaza." - Source

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Archivist Notes On This Video

Umm Omar succumbed to her injuries the next day.

Journalist Anas Al-Sharif posted an obituary: Goodbye, our mother, Umm Omar Noufal We do not know how to mourn you, our mother, nor how to write about you at a moment of departure that breaks the heart and burdens the soul. In this war, you were the bosom that embraced us, and the hand that extended with tenderness, prayer, and care.

You were not only the one who cooked for us and worried about us, but you were the safety in the middle of the storm. *You took care of us as if we were your children, and you said it with a voice trembling with love: "Anas, please take care of yourself... I want you, Abu Yahya, and everyone with you, you are all my children."

They weren't just words... they were the will of a true mother's heart, who feared for us more than herself, prayed for us every moment, and surrounded us with her contentment and love.

*Abu Yahya, your son o Umm Omar, my companion, my brother before he was my friend, he never left me for a moment during the war... We were together in the heart of death during the coverage, and your eyes followed us with sincere prayers and indescribable motherhood.

But, Umm Omar... You didn't know that death was waiting for you, not us. You didn't know that you would be the one leaving, leaving us with this unfillable void and unquenchable longing.

May God have mercy on you, O face of goodness, O mother of us all, O you who carried us in prayer and taught us the meaning of patience and contentment.

O God, make her grave a light, and her abode the highest paradise. Reward her on our behalf with the best reward a mother can receive for her children in this world and the hereafter.

We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return."

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