On January 19, the day the “ceasefire” in Gaza went into effect, 29-year-old Yousef Kassab couldn’t wait to return to his neighborhood of Tel al-Sultan in central Rafah to check on his home. He left ahead of his father along with his nephew and neighbor. But when he arrived, he couldn’t find his house—the Israeli military had destroyed the building and bulldozed the ground where it once stood.

His neighbor’s home nearby was battered, yet somehow still standing, so the three of them went inside to take a break and inspect the damage, Kassab’s father told Drop Site News. “As they were about to leave, Yousef was near the kitchen window and saw a strange object that blew up in his face,” Kassab’s 53-year-old father said. “This is what his neighbor and nephew told me after they were severely wounded by the explosion.”

Mohammed arrived just minutes after the explosion to find his son dead on the ground. “I found him with half a head and several gashes in his body. The two others had serious shrapnel wounds. There was blood splattered all over the floor,” Mohammed said. “I took Yousef and buried him in a graveyard in Khan Younis. I couldn’t take the loss since I lost many of my relatives and he was my only son, he was my backbone, he was everything in my life.”

Yousef, a father of three, was killed by a munition fired into Gaza that had failed to detonate, until he came upon it in his neighbor’s house. Dr. Zaher al-Wahaidi, the director of the Information Center at Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told Drop Site that Yousef was one of at least two people killed by unexploded ordnances in Gaza since the ceasefire began, with at least 40 others wounded.