Killed in an Israeli airstrike, 11-year-old Yaqeen Hammad had become a beacon of hope for Gaza’s displaced and orphaned children.
At only 11 years old, Yaqeen Hammad was Gaza’s youngest media activist and the youngest volunteer in a local charity group. With wisdom well beyond her age, Yaqeen brought hope to places shadowed by fear.
Living under siege in the Gaza Strip, she managed to reach tens of thousands through her Instagram videos. Some highlighted aid efforts for orphans and displaced families. Others showed her laughing and playing with children, handing out gifts with joy.
Many documented the daily struggles of life under relentless Israeli bombardment. Yaqeen’s content was a testament to resilience—a refusal to be crushed by Israel’s genocide.
But Yaqeen’s voice was silenced on a night in Deir al-Balah on Friday night. An Israeli airstrike struck her neighborhood, killing her beneath the rubble.
“Today was a day of joy for Gaza’s orphans, we were giving them new clothes to bring a little happiness.”
🚨BREAKING: The Israeli army killed Yaqeen Hammad, a young girl known for her humanitarian work, in a missile strike on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/iFy8eEkbRw
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) May 23, 2025
The girl who once brought comfort and smiles became another name in a growing list of lives lost in Gaza. Her death marked the loss of one of the Strip’s youngest and most courageous voices.
One of the targeted buildings belonged to the Shreiteh family. Emergency crews later described the aftermath as indescribably painful.
Yaqeen often accompanied her older brother, Mohamed Hammad, a humanitarian worker, on aid missions. Together, they delivered food, clothing, and toys to displaced families.
Yaqeen Hammad, a child social media activist, was killed in a bombardment of the Al-Baraka area in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/Po4UpXW1Yd
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) May 23, 2025
News of her death sparked an outpouring of grief across Gaza and social media. Activists, journalists, and followers mourned the loss of a child who had come to represent light in one of Gaza’s darkest periods.
“She was a child who should have been in school, playing like children everywhere,” one tribute read.
Born into blockade, raised under bombardment, and shaped by trauma, Yaqeen chose to act rather than remain silent. Her courage left a lasting impact on all who saw her — a young girl who led by example amid the ruins.
(PC, QNN, Social media)
What a shame. She was obviously very bright and very spirited. She will be immortalized and ” Israel ” will never live this down.
R.I.P. you hero!
The zios have been refering to Palestinian children such as Yaqeen as “children of the dark”, “sons of Amalik” and “Little snakes”. let us also not omit their outspken calls to kill every child in Gaza. I will not forget these scums cheering at the images of children buried under the rubble and the charred remains of others. When “children of darkness” were expressing their wish for the genocide to end so they can resume their daily life in peace, Zios had their 5 years old singing about “killing the swastika bearers”. Yet these scums still have enough audacity to claim they are “the chosen people.” Zionism is the new Nazism, and “israel”, the cancer of the Middle-East, must be dismantled.
The Zionist-owned western mainstream extremely fake “news” media certainly ignored the killing of this heroic 11-year-old Palestinian little girl, just the same way, that over the past 19 months, they have completely ignored Israel’s massacres of at least twenty thousand Palestinian children, inside Gaza. On the other hand, what a huge tragedy they made over those two Zionist employees of the Israeli embassy, which is naturally a very big supporter of its government’s holocaust against Gaza’s Palestinian civilian population.