Photo: Artistic rendering of Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq how he would have appeared before his life was stolen from us.
To our extended family, the sons and daughters of Abimelech, in Beersheba and Gerar, in Deir al-Balah and Gaza, Deir Thubaan and Hebron, in Lifta and Jerusalem, in Sahl Bin Mathi and Haifa, in Wadi Musa and Petra, and in Palestine's refugee camp across Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon - and to our steadfast Palestinian people.
On the night of August 1, 2026, the criminal Nazi-Zionist aerial forces targeted the family home of Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Mua'iliq in the al Mashaa'la neighborhood, west of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. The attack murdered Abu Nabhan -Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq, aged 68, and his wife Umm Nabhan - Huda Khaled Arar Abu Mua'iliq, aged 59, inside their home.
The murder of Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq and his wife Huda Abu Mua'iliq
Sons of the tribe mourn over the bodies of Kamal Abu Muailiq, 68, and his wife, Huda Abu Muailiq, 59, who were murdered by a Nazi-Zionist attack helicopter, during their funeral at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026.
An Elder of the Hasanat Abu Mua'iliq (Abimelech) tribe and respected indigenous figure, along with his family, were murdered. Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq and Huda lived in Deir al-Balah, steadfastly holding onto their land despite losing their children to Nazi-Zionist terrorism, witnessing the destruction of their neighborhood, and enduring years of violence funded and armed by Christian Zionists.
We are in grief, in honor, and in demand for justice
Here we record the deaths of civilian members of the Hasanat Abu Mua'iliq (Abimelech) tribe in Deir al-Balah and the surrounding refugee camps in Gaza, occupied Palestine. We document specifically the terrorist attack of August 1, 2026, in which tribal Elder Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq and his wife Huda Abu Mua'iliq were murdered in a cowardly Nazi-Zionist missile dropped on their home. We demand this case be evaluated by international criminal law standards, specifically examining violations under Articles 6 (Genocide), 7 (Crimes Against Humanity), and 8 (War Crimes) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Date and location of the murder scene
Date of the terrorist attack: August 1, 2026
Location: Al-Mashaa'la, West of Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip
Method of terror: Aerial missile dropped by Nazi-Zionist military forces targeting a private residential home.
Victims
Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Mua'iliq: Aged 68; tribal Elder, educator, and community pillar in Deir al-Balah.
Huda Khaled Arar Abu Mua'iliq: Aged 59; his devoted wife, killed alongside him inside their residence.
Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq, may he rest in eternal peace.
The brutal murder of the tribe's Elder Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq and his wife, Huda Abu Mua’iliq, marks a tragic peak in the ongoing, relentless, state-backed campaign of terror and genocide aimed at Palestinians of indigenous descent, which includes the UNDRIP-recognized Bedouin tribes and Falaahin of Palestine. These two communities represent the oldest indigenous non-Arab population and form the oldest tribal confederations of Palestine.
Before their deaths, three of their sons had already been killed, including Nabhan Kamal Hamad Abu Mua'iliq (aged 22); Eldest son, murdered in 2010 in Deir al-Balah. Hamza Kamal Nabhan Abu Mua'iliq (aged 30); murdered on October 7, 2023, by a missile dropped on Deir al-Balah. A third son (name being confirmed) was also murdered during the ongoing genocide against the indigenous families of Palestine.
The Tribe of Abimelech Platform has documented, across the reports listed below, a sustained pattern in which American artificial-intelligence and cloud-surveillance systems are used to locate indigenous Bedouin families and target them in their homes, erasing entire households from the civil register during the ongoing genocide:
Mourning Ahmad al-Hassanat, Calling for UN Protection Under UNDRIP
In Memory of Ibrahim al-Hasanat: When Will Terrorism Against Our Children End?
Partial List of Martyrs of the Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq Tribe in Gaza
Christian Genocide Against Palestine: From the Crusades to the Zionists
Dismantling the Biblical Myth of Genocide: The Truth About Israel and Judah
Challenging UN Complicity in Genocide, Nullifying Resolution 2803
The Canaanite origins of the Abu Mua'iliq
Photo: Artistic rendering of Hamza Kamal Nabhan Abu Mua'iliq who was martyred on October 7, 2023, how he would have looked before his life was stolen from us when Nazi-Zionist aircrafts assaulted the civilian population in Deir al-Balah.
The Abu Mua'iliq family is not a recent arrival to southern Palestine. Their roots in Palestine precede every single foreign nation that has ever been imposed upon Palestine.
The Abimelech (Hasanat Abu Mua'iliq) tribal confederation identifies as a Canaanite Bedouin tribe whose documented ancestral corridor runs from Beersheba, known in Arabic as Bi'r as-Saba', west to Gaza and east to the Hebron Hills. This is the territory of the ancient Gerar Basin, known in Bronze Age sources as Gerar, where the ancestors of Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq, the Abimelech kings, ruled.
The name Abu Mua'iliq is itself of pre-Islamic Canaanite derivation and identifies a bloodline in the Naqab. The tribe's ancestral sites of Khirbet Umm Jarrar and Khirbet Abu Mua'iliq, located between Beersheba and Gaza, are among the oldest continuously inhabited tribal territories in the southern Levant. They are not Christian Zionist mythology. They are real geography. They are archaeology. They are documented in the tribe's own oral tradition, confirmed by Arab historians and encyclopedias, Byzantine maps and the Hebrew Bible itself, and consistent with the material record of Palestine.
The covenant of the tribe with this land is older than the Hebrew Bible, older than Islam, and older than Christianity. It predates every political formation, including the Christian Zionists and the Nazi-Zionist state, that today claims authority over the indigenous people of Palestine. When the Nazi-Zionist state targets the Abu Mua'iliq family, it is attempting to exterminate a tribe that has been present on this land for at least four thousand years with documented proof.
Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Mua'iliq
Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq, may he rest in eternal peace.
Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Mua'iliq, known as Abu Nabhan, was born in Deir al-Balah in 1958 and lived in central Gaza his entire life. He was an Elder of the tribe and a member of its principal family, the Abu Mua'iliq, the core bloodline of the Abimelech tribe. For decades he was a central figure in the social, educational, and religious life of Deir al-Balah.
The Abu Mua'iliq are an indigenous family of the Gerar Valley, between Beersheba and Gaza, within the ancestral tribal territories of Khirbet Abu Mua'il and Khirbet Umm Jarrar. The tribe held a continuous, documented presence there for over four millennia, living as a settled agricultural community and acting as mediators among the tribal confederations of the Naqab.
Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq, may he rest in eternal peace.
That presence was broken by force in the Palestinian Genocide of 1948 (the Nakba), when the tribe's ancestral territory was stolen by the Nazi-Zionist state and its people were expelled with British weapons and driven into refugee status and poverty. Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq's parents were among those whose land and homes were stolen, and the family was displaced to Deir al-Balah, where he was born a decade later. The theft of these indigenous tribal territories was and remains a crime under international law. The Nazi-Zionist state has never returned this land, and the tribe has never surrendered its right to it.
Whatever affiliations the criminal state may attribute to Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq are legally irrelevant to his murder.
Sheikh Kamal Abu Mua'iliq, may he rest in eternal peace.
He was never charged before any court, never tried, and never afforded any due process of law. He stayed in his home in Deir al-Balah and never gave up his people's right to return to their stolen land in the Gerar Valley. We hold the Christian Zionist movement and the Nazi-Zionist state responsible for the murder of a child of the Abimelech tribe.
The Tribe of Abimelech demands justice NOW.
Over 130 members of the Abimelech tribe were murdered
Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq's family joins a documented registry of more than 130 members of the ancient Abimelech (Hasanat Abu Mua'iliq) tribal confederation murdered in Gaza over the past two years alone. This registry records infants, children, teenagers, parents, and elders, and documents the resulting risk of the tribe's extinction on its ancestral territory. We document them because silence is a form of participation, and we will not participate.
Read the partial list of martyrs of the Hasanat Abu Mua'iliq tribe.
The Technology of Genocide
The Nazi-Zionist military does not conduct this genocide with rifles and cowardly airstrikes alone against the caged Palestinian population. It conducts it with data. It conducts it with cloud computing infrastructure, AI-powered targeting systems, and surveillance databases that identify, track, and designate individual Palestinians for assassination, displacement, and detention.
The criminal military operates "Project Nimbus"
The criminal military operates "Project Nimbus" and associated cloud infrastructure built on services provided by corporations headquartered in the United States, including Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has been contracted to the entity's Ministry of Defense and military intelligence. Oracle's database and analytics infrastructure serves the Nazi-Zionist governmental systems. These are not companies that passively operate in a conflict zone. They are companies that have signed contracts, maintain operations, and continue to provide services with full knowledge that those services are being used to power the targeting and killing of a civilian population under active genocide proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
When the Nazi-Zionist aerial system identifies a residential home in al-Mashaa'la as a target and dispatches a strike that murders Sheikh Abu Mua'iliq and Huda Abu Mua'iliq, that targeting system runs on infrastructure. That infrastructure has corporate owners. Those corporate owners have boards of directors, shareholders, and legal teams. They are not innocent bystanders. They are material participants in the operational execution of genocide, and they bear legal accountability under international law for the role their systems play in the systematic murder of a civilian population.
The Tribe of Abimelech Platform states clearly that American Christian-Zionist controlled corporations, such as Microsoft and Oracle are providing the digital infrastructure of the genocide of our people. We call on every government, every international institution, and every civil society organization to demand the immediate termination of all contracts between these corporations and the criminal state's military and intelligence apparatus, and to pursue legal accountability for their role in the commission of genocide.
The United Nations is an active participant of the Palestinian Genocide
The United Nations Security Council is not failing to stop this genocide. It is actively enabling it.
On November 17, 2025, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2803, which endorsed a unilateral American colonial mandate and establishing a so-called "Board of Peace" to govern survivors of genocide, with the President of the United States as its chair, without the consent of the Palestinian people who are the victims of the genocide the resolution was designed to conceal. This resolution was adopted while the International Court of Justice had issued binding provisional measures ordering cessation of genocidal acts, while the UN's own Commission of Inquiry had formally determined that genocide was being committed, and while ICC arrest warrants against Nazi-Zionist figures in occupied Palestine remained outstanding and unenforced. The resolution does not mention genocide. It does not acknowledge a single ICJ finding. It does not acknowledge the more than 73,000 Palestinians murdered as of its adoption. It doesn’t mention the 21,000 indigenous children who were murdered, mostly in their sleep, in just one Palestinian city, Gaza, over the short span of 18 months. It rewards the states that funded, armed, and diplomatically shielded the genocide with administrative authority over the surviving population.
The UN has issued hundreds of reports documenting the murder and expulsion of the indigenous population of Palestine. Not a single UN report has ever produced any enforceable action to stop it. Every such report is a document of complicity dressed as documentation.
The United States of America has provided the criminal state with over $22.8 billion in military funding to sustain the current wave of the Palestinian Genocide, including the missiles used in the terrorist attacks that murdered the Abu Mua'iliq family. It has exercised its Security Council veto to shield every mechanism of Genocide accountability. The permanent members who abstained, China and Russia, bear their own historical accountability for standing silent while genocide was laundered through the UN system as peace.
The United Nations hasn’t failed the Palestinian people; rather, it has been used by the Christian Zionist movement and its armed forces in occupied Palestine operating as the "State of Israel," as a tool to advance what they see as biblical prophecy and the extermination of the Palestinian race.
International Legal Frameworks
Under Article 6 of the Rome Statute, genocide constitutes acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
The repeated, unannounced targeting of civilian residential zones resulting in the destruction of entire multi-generational bloodlines (e.g., three generations of the Abu Mua'iliq family) meets the threshold under Article 6(a) (Killing members of the group) and Article 6(c) (Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part).
With over 130 fatalities documented within the tribe of Abimelech, the demographic impact demonstrates its systematic destruction.
Article 7 governs acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.
The killing of non-combatants inside their homes during coordinated aerial bombardments across Deir al-Balah, Gaza City, and Khan Younis (Quds Net documentation) reflects a continuous operational policy of the Nazi-Zionist entity's genocide on the indigenous population.
The severe mental and physical trauma inflicted upon surviving family members who face repeated multi-generational losses.
Article 8, War Crimes
Article 8 regulates grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and customary International Humanitarian Law (IHL).
Rome Statute Provision | Legal Definition | Application to Case Record |
Art. 8(2)(a)(i) | Willful Killing | Targeting a private home resulting in the deaths of non-combatants aged 68 and 59. |
Art. 8(2)(b)(i) | Attacking Civilian Objects | Directing attacks against non-military, private residential property in Al-Mashaa'la. |
Art. 8(2)(b)(iv) | Disproportionality | Launching strikes knowing the incidental civilian injury or loss of life outweighs military necessity. |
Condolences
We extend our deepest condolences to the surviving children of Sheikh Kamal and Huda, to the extended Abu Mua'iliq family, and to every household in Gaza mourning on this day.
We demand that the International Criminal Court exercise its jurisdiction over the murder of Sheikh Kamal Nabhan Hamad Abu Mua'iliq, his wife Huda, his children, and the more than 130 members of our tribe murdered before them, and that it pursue accountability for every individual, military commander, and corporate officer whose actions contributed to their deaths.
"And do not think of those who are killed in the way of God as dead. Rather, they are alive with their Lord, receiving provision."
May God grant mercy and the highest stations in paradise to Sheikh Kamal, to Huda, their children, and to all the martyrs of our tribe.
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