Death for dissent: The saga of Uday in Gaza

Uday in hiding: Farewell video shortly before his murder

Uday Al-Raba'i: "I of course am done with this war, and now Hamas is attacking us. They want me, they want to shoot me. Before they wanted me and wanted to shoot me, they came to me recently also by surprise. A short while ago, they also shot my brother, and we still do not know who shot him. Masked men came to him – I figure they're from [Hamas'] Qassam [Brigades], God knows – they shot him, and I've been running away since this morning... And here Gaza is a ghost town, and I am running away through the streets. I don't know where to go. I don't know what exactly they want from us, I don't know. They've brought us to annihilation. They've brought disaster on us, and I don't know what they want from the young people, what they want from them – they all have metal pins in their legs [are injured]. I swear to Allah, none of us knows what to do. May Allah save us, and that's it."

Uday's tortured body

⁠Uday's funeral: "Out! Out! Hamas out! Hamas out!"

⁠Uday's family demands retaliation: "A rogue group from [Hamas'] Al-Qassam Brigades, a group of sinners, kidnapped my unjustly murdered son, Uday Al-Raba'i, under despicable and false pretexts. They dragged him and tortured him to death with everything they had, without caring about the sacred prohibitions — nor about his mother nor about the family's feelings. They took him treacherously, and murdered him. Therefore, they must be struck with an iron fist, these evil criminals who took this man, a Muslim, and murdered him unlawfully… Retaliation against the murderers. The only consolation will be retaliation against these evil murderers, even if it takes time. We ask Almighty Allah to inflict suffering upon them and to punish them severely... We demand that all human rights [organizations] and institutions stand in support of the residents of Gaza against [Hamas] these criminal evildoers."

[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Telegram channel, March 30, 2025]

Uday Al-Raba'i - As part of the protests against Hamas, Uday Al-Raba'i posted anti-Hamas content on social media. On March 29, 2025, he was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered for his crime.