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Gabriel Epstein

Mar 20 • 11 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X

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Yesterday, Palestinian Islamic Jihad published the names of an additional 86 commanders killed during the Gaza war. Due to the list's size, this thread will analyze one half, which includes 3 journalists, 3 nurses, and 2 lawyers, among others. Details below: 🧵

Many of those listed were previously known to be PIJ commanders or to hold dual roles, but others were not previously identifiable from open-source information. I believe most of these initial journalist IDs were first made by @MiddleEastBuka (apologies to anyone who was first). Links for specific persons and the full set of announcements available -- just DM.

Mohammed Mohammed Nasser Kamel Abu Huweidi (ID#: 803434364, age 29), listed as a journalist for the privately owned al-Istiqlal news outlet, was a commander in PIJ’s Central Military Media Unit. Abu Huweidi was killed in a December 2023 airstrike.

Mohammed Nabil Ibrahim al-Zaq (ID#: 400208245, age 29), listed as a journalist for the PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV, was previously known to be a PIJ fighter. This announcement confirmed him as the Head of PIJ’s Central Bureau in the Northern Region. al-Zaq was killed in a November 2023 airstrike.

Salem Hosni Salem Abu Tayr (ID#: 802466995, age 34), listed as the financial manager of and photojournalist for the PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV, was confirmed to be a commander in PIJ’s Military Media Unit in the Central Brigade. According to family members, Abu Tayr initially trained as a nurse. Abu Tayr was killed in an April 2024 airstrike.

Salem Juma Ishaq Sharab (ID #: 801710096, age 36), a nurse at Nasser Hospital and treasurer of the Palestinian Nursing Association, was a commander in PIJ’s Military Ambulance Unit in the Khan Younis Brigade. Sharab was killed in a March 2024 airstrike near the Emirates Hospital in Rafah.

Diaa Nafez Abdulhadi Felfel (ID#: 802233486, age 35), who worked both as a nurse and the emergency room supervisor for the Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza, was a commander in PIJ’s Military Ambulance Unit in its Northern Brigade. Felfel was killed in a May 2024 airstrike.

Ahmed Mohammed Hassan Balousha (ID#: 800114175, age 39), a nurse who a colleague said worked in a corneal transplant unit at the Eye Hospital in Gaza City, was a commander in PIJ’s Military Judiciary Unit in the Gaza Brigade. Balousha was killed in a December 2023 airstrike.

Mohammed Jaber Dakhlallah Abu Mustafa (ID#: 800355760, age 38), founder and executive director of the National Youth Center NGO in Khan Younis, was a commander in the Operations Unit of PIJ’s Khan Younis Brigade. Abu Mustafa was killed in a December 2024 airstrike.

Arafat Abullah Mohammed al-Jarjawi (ID#: 801948613, age 35) was the Deputy Commander of the al-Ourubi Battalion in PIJ’s Khan Younis Brigade. His brother Ashraf al-Jarjawi (circled) is reportedly the Gaza director of the Arab World Research and Development Center (AWRAD), which carries out polling in the strip.

Summary of the first half of the list:
30 of the commanders are directly connected to one of PIJ’s five regional brigades in Gaza, while the other 13 appear to be attached to independent or central units. 38 of the 43 commanders can be found on the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health’s death toll list.

Civilian professions can be found for 10, including:
- 3 journalists
- 3 nurses
- 2 lawyers

Analysis of the second half of the list to come in a separate thread.

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May 7

On May 6, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) published another set of 17 of their slain commanders in Gaza, bringing the total identified since February to 292. This set includes journalists, health and education workers, and police and internal security personnel. 🧵

PIJ confirmed prior reporting first done by @MiddleEastBuka that Mohammed al-Saeed Ismail Abu Sakhil (ID#: 803231604, age 32), a journalist for the Sawt al-Quds Radio station, was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Financial Administration Unit in the Gaza Brigade. Both Sakhil and his brother (another journalist) were killed in fighting in and near Shifa Hospital in March-April 2024. x.com/GabrielEpstein…

Mohammed Abdulnasser Mohammed al-Masri (ID#: 802443788, age 33), a teacher and the husband of journalist Salam Khalil Mohammed Mayma (ID#: 802820001, age 32), was a commander in PIJ’s Central Coordination Unit in the Northern Brigade. Both al-Masri and Mayma, along with their three children, were killed in an October 2023 airstrike. More detail on their case is here: x.com/GabrielEpstein…

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Gabriel Epstein

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May 6

The likely target of an Oct 10, 2023 airstrike in Gaza that killed journalist Salam Khalil Mohammed Mayma (ID#: 802820001, age 32): her husband, PIJ commander Mohammed Abdulnasser Mohammed al-Masri (ID#: 802443788, age 33). 🧵

Today, PIJ claimed al-Masri as a commander in its Central Coordination Unit in the Northern Brigade. al-Masri was also a teacher at multiple schools, including a stretch at the Adnan al-Alami Secondary School for Boys in al-Shati neighborhood in Gaza City. al-Masri and Mayma reportedly wed in 2015.

Salam Khalil Mayma is included on the Committee to Protect Journalists, International Federation of Journalists, and the Hamas-run Government Media Office’s list of slain journalists in Gaza, as well as outside trackers.
Mayma was the head of the Women Journalists Committee at the Palestinian Media Assembly, which CPJ identified as a PIJ-affiliated body. CPJ lists her as a freelance journalist, while IFJ identifies her as a reporter for the PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Radio.

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Gabriel Epstein

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Apr 20

Last week, a new U.N. Women report claimed that more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, or 47 per day. This is a speculative projection based on a projection, not a data point, and was widely misreported. 🧵

An initial problem is that the press release for the U.N. Women Advocacy Brief “The Cost of War in Gaza on Women and Girls” and the report itself say two different things: the press release (L) presents the 38,000 figure as fact while the report (R) is clear that it is an estimate, not a count.

News articles about the report, not surprisingly, largely use the incorrect framing of the press release. That’s a disservice to readers, and a failure both of U.N. Women to match the press release and report and of media organizations to check the details.

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Gabriel Epstein

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Mar 26

A good example of wartime misinformation: a Nov 2025 al-Jazeera English article about Israa al-Areer, a Gazan freelance journalist, and her search for her missing husband Yasser al-Tawil and brother Diaa al-Areer fails to mention both were Hamas militants killed on October 7. 🧵

al-Jazeera and al-Areer tell one story in English, but open-source documentation and an article by the Felesteen Arabic-language outlet (below), which also interviewed al-Areer only 3 days after the October 7 attack tells a very different one. Below, a side-by-side comparison of several key points, with all links at the end of the thread.

To al-Jazeera (in English. L), al-Areer says that her husband, Yasser Zuhair Ahmed al-Tawil (ID#: 803617968, age 30) typically spent Friday nights with friends and was out late. But to Felesteen (in Arabic, R), who identified al-Tawil as a Qassam Brigades fighter, al-Areer describes al-Tawil as dressing in his military uniform and departing for al-Ribat, which the article translates as vigil/guard duty (see title in previous post).

al-Areer tells al-Jazeera (L) that her husband was part of a group of “curious citizens” who went to the border area to see what was going on after the 10/7 attack began. But to Felesteen (R), she speaks of her husband’s longtime participation in the “ranks of the resistance” and his desire to join the attack.

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Gabriel Epstein

@GabrielEpsteinX

Mar 22

Palestinian Islamic Jihad recently published the names of an additional 85 commanders killed during the Gaza war. This thread will cover the second half of the list (see next tweet for the first), which includes commanders in media, medical, and police roles. Details below: 🧵

https://x.com/GabrielEpsteinX/status/2034987423570997328

Analysis of the first half of the list is here:

https://x.com/GabrielEpsteinX/status/2034987423570997328

Hassan Abdulfattah Farajallah Farajallah (ID#: 800183485, age 39), an executive at the PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV as well as a news presenter, was the commander of PIJ’s Mobilization Unit in the Northern Brigade. He was also, according to his Facebook page and other social media posts, a human development coach and educator at multiple Gazan schools.

Farajallah was killed in a December 2023 airstrike, and is listed by the IFJ and Hamas-run Government Media Office, though not the Committee to Protect Journalists, as a journalist killed during the war.

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Gabriel Epstein

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Mar 17

On May 28, 2025, an airstrike on a car in Gaza City killed 4 people, including two employees of the Turkish humanitarian NGO IHH (one the program director) and a journalist for the PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV. New information indicates at least 3/4 were PIJ militants.🧵

Three of those killed—IHH program director Mohammed Jamal al-Mubayyad (45), Ahmed Matar Bustan (ID#: 404600363, age 26), and IHH employee Ishaq Assad al-Tayf (ID#: 409057130, age 21)—were mourned in the days after the strike by a PIJ channel dedicated to the memory of slain PIJ leader Khalil al-Bahtini (in 2023), but without explicit language naming them as militants.

However, today another PIJ-affiliated obituary channel published images explicitly identifying al-Mubayyad as a PIJ commander and Bustan as a fighter. Al-Tayf's face, at right, is blurred in this version of the photo (but not in the previous tweet). al-Mubayyad has yet to be added to the Hamas-run Health Ministry's list of the dead, while all others killed in this strike are on it.

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