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On Thursday, October 19th, 2023, two brothers, 39-year-old Khalil Ibrahim Abu Athrah and 33-year-old Moaz Ibrahim Abu Athrah, were reported killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Nasr neighbourhood, north of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Khalil, who worked as a cameraman for the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV, was remembered by his colleagues, who called him a “beloved journalist colleague” and “co-worker and lifelong friend.” Fellow journalists attached photographs of Khalil, often with camera in tow. Several sources claimed he had been deliberately “targeted” for his work.
English-language Carthage Magazine pointed to the strike as an example of the dangers journalists face, writing “half of all the journalists that were killed worldwide in 2022 have been killed by Israel in Gaza in just 11 days,” with Twitter/X user @Hamzaalnamla1 reported that the brothers had been found “in body parts.”
All sources that identified a belligerent attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of al Nasr (الناصر) to the north of Rafah (رفح). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to find boundaries for the neighbourhood and to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for al Nasr are: 31.278118, 34.306429.