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Airwars Assessment
Shortly before 6:20 PM on Saturday, October 21, 2023, an alleged Israeli strike on the “Al-Hasanat” family home in the town of Deir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip killed at least one civilian and injured at least one other. The number of casualties may be higher.
Interior Ministry in Gaza and Arab TV correspondent reported about “martyrs and wounded in an Israeli bombing on the house of the Al-Hasanat family in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.” Most other sources referred to the initial report by the Interior Ministry. A Facebook user Daoud Bou Hussein Zayat wrote about “one martyr and one wounded” resulting from the incident. Journalist Ahmed Qadeeh added that “a number of citizens died” in this incident.
This assessment will be updated if and when more details become available on the victims.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the town of Deir Al Balah (دير البلح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.418995, 34.349442. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.