Alma Hilmi Mahmoud Abed

Their life

Alma Hilmi Mahmoud Abed was a young Palestinian girl from Gaza and the daughter of Eman Hatem Al-Shanti (Abed) and Helmi Abed. She was one of the children killed in the December 11, 2024 airstrike on her family's home in Sheikh Radwan. Alma died alongside her parents and two siblings, Omar and Bilal. Her sister Banan survived the attack with serious injuries.

Alma was one of the children in the Abed family of Gaza City. Her mother, Eman Hatem Al-Shanti, was a Palestinian journalist and radio presenter, while her father was Helmi Abed. Alma lived with her parents and siblings during the war in Gaza. On December 11, 2024, the family's residential building in Sheikh Radwan was struck by an Israeli airstrike. Alma was killed together with her mother, father, brother Omar and brother Bilal. Her sister Banan, approximately 13 years old, survived but sustained serious injuries. The attack therefore resulted in the death of almost the entire immediate family, leaving Banan as the known surviving child.

How they died

Alma Hilmi Mahmoud Abed was a Palestinian child who was killed together with her mother, journalist Eman Hatem Al-Shanti, her father Helmi Abed, and her siblings Omar Abed and Bilal Abed when their family home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City was struck by an Israeli airstrike. The attack killed five members of the family; their daughter/sibling Banan Abed survived but was seriously injured.

On December 11, 2024, an Israeli airstrike struck the Al-Malash residential building in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. Alma was inside the building with her parents and siblings when the strike occurred. She was killed along with her mother Eman, her father Helmi, and her siblings Omar and Bilal. Only her 13-year-old sister Banan survived among the children, although she suffered serious injuries. Reports from the incident said that rescuers faced difficulties reaching the victims because Israeli drones remained over the area.

A plea from the family

Journalist killed with family in Israeli strike hours after her post "How are we still alive till now"

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Alma Hilmi Mahmoud Abed, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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