Mohamed Abdallah al-Majdalawi and his two-year-old daughter, Layan, shot by an Israeli sniper

Mohamed Abdallah al-Majdalaw and his two-year-old daughter, Layan, were shot to death on Hamid Street in Gaza City in late December, 2023. A video showing them lying on the street, dying, was broadcast by the Qatari Al-Araby news service. The BBC spent many months trying to track down what happened and how it happened, and finally broadcast their findings on August 2, 2025.

Layan’s was among more than 160 cases of children shot in Gaza that the BBC reported on that day.

In many instances, as in this one, the evidence points to individual Israeli marksmen shooting the children with no indication that the killing was part of a battle or in response to a threat to the Israelis.

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