Mahmoud Al-Madhoun, “hero” of Gaza Soup Kitchen mowed down by Israeli strike

Mahmoud Al-Madhoun, in an image from the Gaza Soup Kitchen Instagram account, undated. @GAZASOUPKITCHEN/INSTAGRAM

When an Israeli army drone cracked the sky above his head, Mahmoud Al-Madhoun, 33, was only three blocks from Kamal-Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahya. This Saturday, November 30, early in the morning, the founder of the NGO Gaza Soup Kitchen was transporting vegetables for the patients of this care center, among the last still operating in the north of the Gaza Strip. On the way, the firing of the military machine left no chance for this father of seven children, whose youngest, Aline, had been born two weeks earlier.

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« I tried to save him by taking him to the hospital on a cart, with neighbors, says, via WhatsApp, Abu Tamer, 41, the thirty-year-old’s assistant, who was about ten meters in front of him – Israel still prohibits journalists from entering the Gaza Strip. But it was impossible. » In addition to his very serious injuries, Mahmoud Al-Madhoun could not be moved because of several Israeli army snipers who began shooting in the area around the health establishment, says the humanitarian. About thirty minutes after the missile strike, Abu Tamer decided to bury his friend the same day. at the side of a street », in a makeshift coffin.

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