Thanks to a story published on the front page of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, the story of the tragic fate of Youssef Abu Jadallah quickly spread in Germany; The doctor, of Palestinian origin, and his family traveled from the city of Dortmund to Gaza to visit their relatives, days before the start of the war, only to die during it. The newspaper quoted Ahmed Abu Jadallah, Youssef’s brother – who was working in the city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – that on November 8, 2023, after two weeks of searching, he was able to recover his body and the body of his wife, Aya, and their children, Salah al-Din (10 years old). ), Muhammad (9 years old), Abdel Rahman (3 years old), and Omar (an infant), from under the rubble of the living room of the family home, which was destroyed by an Israeli air strike.
The interest and follow-up shown by the well-known German newspaper, and before that by the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, in the fate of the bodies of the family of Doctor Abu Jadallah, given that they hold the nationality of this country, was not the same as the bodies of the Palestinian Abu Shamala family, which in turn died in the family square in Khan Yunis on October 26. The past was in similar circumstances, and it still lies under the rubble.