Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) identified 43 more slain commanders, totaling 209 announcements in the past 2 months. Most of this tranche are platoon-level commanders and were killed in the first year of the war. The list includes 6 workers for the Hamas-run government. 🧵
Ahmed Jamal Khaled al-Bahtini (ID#: 801485285, age 37), the deputy commander of PIJ’s Darj al-Tuffah Battalion in the Gaza Brigade, was killed in an October 2023 airstrike. The extended al-Bahtini family is prominent in PIJ: Khalil Salah al-Bahtini was the group’s military leader in northern Gaza and was killed during the May 2023 Israel-PIJ conflict.
Ahmed Mohammed Hussein Abu al-Qumsan (ID#: 801250820, age 35), the deputy commander of PIJ’s al-Radwan and al-Nasser Battalion in the Gaza Brigade, was killed in an October 2024 airstrike.
Two drivers for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry (MOH), one a volunteer, were identified as slain PIJ platoon commanders:
Mohammed Ali Ghanem Mohammed Abu Kamil (L, ID#: 801884313, age 35) was a platoon commander in PIJ’s rocket unit, Central Brigade. He is listed as a transport driver for the MOH, both on external trackers and an MOH dashboard. Abu Kamil was killed in an October 2023 airstrike.
Mahmoud Hosni Ibrahim Muharrab (R, ID#: 402962955, age 26), meanwhile, is identified by colleagues as a volunteer driver operating out of the al-Awda (Nuseirat) Hospital. He was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Armored Corps in the Central Brigade. Muharrab was killed in June 2024.
Two other commanders on the list worked for the MOH:
Raed Abdulhamid Khudeir Khudeir (L, ID#: 802615807, age 33) was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Khan Younis Brigade as well as an electrician in the MOH’s engineering and maintenance department (according to an MOH dashboard). He was killed in February 2024.
Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Miqdad (R, ID#: 802254573, age 34) worked in an administrative role in the MOH’s complaints unit, and was a platoon commander in PIJ’s rocket unit, Gaza Brigade. He was killed in March 2024.
Ahmed Zakaria Mohammed Barakat (ID#: 802464255, age 34), another platoon commander in PIJ’s rocket unit, Gaza Brigade, worked for the Gaza Electric Distribution Company (GEDCO) in an unspecified role, according to his social media.
Ahmed Nahed Mamdouh Abed (ID#: 410153894, age 31) was a field supervisor working for the Khan Younis municipality. He held an advanced degree in GIS, and was a support platoon commander in PIJ’s Khan Younis Brigade, Eastern Battalion.
Two brothers, Ahmed (Top R, ID#: 803321207, age 32) and Ramadan Luai Fouad al-Minawi (Bottom R, ID#: 804413359, age 30), were identified as platoon commanders in the signal corps and military site security, respctively, of PIJ's Gaza Brigade.
They join their father, Luai Fouad Yousef al-Minawi (L, ID#: 934883141, age 60), Deputy Commander of PIJ's military manufacturing unit, whose death was announced by PIJ in February.
Summary:
- Of 43 slain commanders, 2 were deputy battalion commanders, 2 were centralized unit commanders, and 39 were platoon-level commanders
- At least 39/43 were killed in the first year of the war, and at least 13 in the first month
- 37/43 appear on the Gaza Health Ministry death toll register as of November 2025 — platoon-level commanders have proven harder to find open-source information on, underscoring the limitations of this approach
7 of the 43 had an identifiable civilian role, including:
- 4 Health Ministry employees (non-medical)
- 2 municipal/utility employees (GEDCO and Khan Younis municipality)
⁃ 1 lawyer
Since February, PIJ has reported the deaths of 209 commanders, plus 15 high-level leaders before that for a total of 224. Hamas has also released the names of hundreds of commanders in recent months, though generally one-by-one and with much more footage. It is clear, as usual, that Hamas’ media apparatus and media archive is of a much higher caliber than PIJ’s.
Links:
Obituary lists (individual posters follow after each announcement): t.me/sarayaps/20182 (4/18)
t.me/sarayaps/20207 (4/20)
Previous analyses of PIJ obituary releases:
x.com/GabrielEpstein… (3/19, 43 commanders, part 1 of list of 85)
x.com/GabrielEpstein… (3/19, 42 commanders, part 2 of list of 85)
x.com/GabrielEpstein… (3/1, 20 commanders)
x.com/GabrielEpstein… (2/26, 20 commanders)
x.com/GabrielEpstein… (2/24, 41 commanders)
All MOH death toll register iterations: archive.org/details/moh-de…
MOH Dashboard: sehatty.ps/public/
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