Mohamed Kilani, killed while searching for food for his family

The New York Times talked with Mohamed Kilani, a lawyer in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia, in October, 2024. At the time, he was barely able to feed his twin 2-year-old daughters, the Times reports.

“We have been given one option only: that is to die,” he told us at the time.

Later, Times reporters saw social media posts from his family that mourned his death. When we reached his cousin, she said he had gone to look for food for his family and never returned.

After he disappeared, family members saw some photos of stray dogs eating corpses in northern Gaza, the cousin said. They thought they recognized his body among them.

Kilani’s cousin is one of nearly 100 Gaza residents the Times was able to reach, out of more than 700 interviewed earlier in the war.

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