Nearly two years ago, during an Israeli military incursion into Gaza’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, Israeli forces surrounded Palestinian detainee Majdi Al-Ayyoubi, his mother, and his wife, who was nine months pregnant. While Majdi was being tortured during a so-called field interrogation, an Israeli officer ordered his mother and wife to walk north. Shortly afterwards, Israeli forces bombed them, killing both women and his unborn son. A Shin Bet officer then boasted to Majdi about their killing. They murdered his family and turned his grief into yet another instrument of torture. I shared some of the darkest chapters of suffering with Majdi inside the Sde Teiman torture camp. We were held together in the section they called “Hell,” where he endured both the agony of his injuries and the unbearable loss of his family. Majdi survived captivity and emerged from that graveyard of the living. Yet Israel would not let him live. Just moments ago, Israeli forces killed Majdi in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City. He has now joined his mother, his wife, and the son he never had the chance to hold in his arms. Majdi carried his longing for that child until his very last breath.