Iman al-Zamili

Iman al-Zamili was from Rafah. Displaced with her family about a year and a half earlier when Israel ordered the city’s evacuation, she lived in a tent near Hamad Towers, north of Khan Younis, and “continued her media work and activism from within it,” the MADA Center reported. Gaza’s Government Media Office identified her as a journalist for the Palestine News network; MADA, WAFA and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate describe her as a freelance journalist.

She was killed in the early hours of Monday, September 1, 2025. Her sister Maram told MADA that a quadcopter drone dropped an explosive device beside the tent and Iman was hit in the head by shrapnel, dying shortly after reaching Nasser Hospital; other accounts, including a Qatar Press Center statement, said she was shot by a drone while collecting drinking water. The accounts agree on the essentials — Israeli drone fire, near Hamad Towers, a fatal head wound — while some secondary reports date her death to August 31 or September 2.

Drop Site News, citing Gaza’s Government Media Office, named her among the journalists killed as Israel’s assault intensified that September, and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate’s Freedoms Committee later counted her among 44 Palestinian journalists killed inside displacement tents during the war, according to Sada News. She was 43.

Sources

• MADA: 72 Violations Against Media Freedoms in Palestine During the Month of September — MADA Center
• Panic as Israel Warns High Rises in Gaza City Will Be Struck With Minutes to Get Out — Drop Site News
• Martyrs of Palestinian Journalism — WAFA (Arabic)
• Journalists Syndicate: How the occupation army killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents — Sada News