Name: Mahmoud Hussein Muhammad Matar
Date of event: 2009-01-16
Date of death: 2009-01-18
Age: 27.0
Citizenship: Palestinian
Gender: M
Event location: Gaza City
Took part in hostilities: No
Type of injury: gunfire
Killed by: Israeli security forces
Notes: Mentally disabled, he left his house and went missing for two days. After the soldiers left the area, his brother found his body next to al-'Amudi intersection, in the northern part of the city. He had been shot in the thigh and apparently bled for two days, during which nobody was able to come to his aid.