Senior Policy Associate @IsraelPolicy4m. Former Research Assistant @WashInstitute. Graduate @SAISHopkins.
Arshi was identified as IHH's (also known as the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation) nutrition program director in Gaza in interviews for multiple al-Jazeera articles from March-May 2025, as well as by the Lebanese newspaper an-Nahar (which referred to him as a social protection officer with IHH instead) and the Hamas-affiliated Shehab news agency.
In general, these squad-level leaders are more difficult to find information on than higher-ranking commanders. In other cases, they do not appear on the Hamas-run Ministry of Health (MOH) death toll registry despite their deaths being well-publicized.
Mohammed Zayed Hamed Zaqmat (ID#: 921895991, age 53), a board member of the National Development Forum educational and cultural NGO, was a platoon deputy in PIJ’s military judicial unit in the Khan Younis Brigade. Zaqmat was killed in an October 2023 airstrike along with several relatives, including one son, Zayed Mohammed Zayed Zaqmat (ID#: 803879220, age 30), who was a militant.
Siam worked for the Reform committee dating back to at least 2013, and was also an important member of his own clan. 
Jamal Aref Salem al-Faqawi (ID#: 402220396, age 27), a journalist at the PIJ-affiliated Mithaq Media Foundation, was a deputy platoon/squad leader in PIJ's central support and supply unit in the Khan Younis Brigade. Jamal was killed in an October 2023 strike, and was first ID'd by @MiddleEastBuka. Both Helmi and Jamal were claimed by PIJ in the same June 9 media release.
Abdullah Riyad Qaddoum ("Abu Riyad") is memorialized by multiple relatives and friends as a commander and "mujahid", and at least one names him as PIJ's Gaza Brigade commander. Local anti-Hamas outlets also reported that he was a high-ranking commander in PIJ. 
Links: t.me/sarayaps/20527 or t.me/SarayaUnbanned…
Ahmed Salama Hashem Abu Aisha (ID#: 802985226, age 34), an editor and photographer for the PIJ-affiliated Palestine Now news agency, was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Central Intelligence Unit in the Central Brigade. Friends and colleagues described Abu Aisha using coded references to militant status such as “advancing, not retreating” and stating he had died “on the road to Jerusalem [al-Quds]”.
@AneraOrg has now removed both its June 2025 press release announcing Mahmoud Rasras’ death and a June 2025 blog post mourning him from its website. An archived version of each can be found here:
Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali (ID#: 801329251, age 38), a journalist for PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV, was a platoon commander in the central operations unit of PIJ’s Central Brigade. al-Sheikh Ali was killed in a December 2024 strike alongside 4 other al-Quds Today journalists. The IDF released evidence at the time arguing that 4/5 were PIJ militants. al-Sheikh Ali is listed by the CPJ and other media worker death trackers.
Hossam Manal Saadi al-Dabaka (ID#: 400599825, age 29), a journalist for PIJ-affiliated al-Quds Today TV, was a platoon commander in the group’s central military media unit for the Central Brigade. Dabaka, who is listed by the CPJ as a journalist killed on dangerous assignment, was killed in an August 2024 airstrike. This admission by PIJ confirms prior research by @MiddleEastBuka, @GnasherJew, and others.
Mohammed Walid Shreim, who PIJ identified on May 17 as a platoon commander in the central operations unit of their Gaza Brigade, was a police officer, according to old photos on his personal facebook page. Shreim is not listed on the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry death toll list.
Thaer Awadallah Sobhi al-Awadiyya (ID#: 802529412, age 34), a commander in PIJ’s central brigade security unit in the Northern Brigade, was also the secretary of PIJ’s student arm, the Islamic Association, in the northern Gaza strip. al-Awadiyya was killed in January 2025. 
Haitham Mohammed Hamad Hamad (ID#: 803758333, age 31), an operating room technician working at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, was a platoon commander in PIJ’s Combat Ambulance Unit in the Northern Brigade.
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…
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.
Raed Musa Ramadan al-Banna (ID#: 910736529, age 52), an administrative clerk at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was a platoon commander in PIJ’s al-Jadida Battalion in the Gaza Brigade. al-Banna was killed in an October 2023 airstrike, which @MiddleEastBuka identified as the same strike which killed journalist Nazmi al-Nadim. 
Ahmed Ismail Ahmed al-Buraim (ID#: 8800154916, age 43), a first lieutenant in Gaza’s Civil Defense, was also a platoon commander in PIJ’s Central Communications Unit in the Central Brigade.
