Around 5:08 in the evening of Tuesday, October 24th 2023, the home of the Shaldan family in Deir al-Balah located in the central Gaza Strip was allegedly bombed by the Israeli military, resulting in 12 civilian deaths, including three women and six children.

Safa News was among the first to report the incident, posting about six members of the Shaldan family being killed. Later social media testimonies by family relatives and friends helped to identify the names of the 12 killed family members.

62-year-old Amna Salman Shaldan Al-Najjar was killed alongside her brother, 52-year-old Muhammad Salman Shaldan Al-Najjar, her two sons, Mahmoud and Muhammad, her daughter Kifayeh, and at least five grandchildren.

Son of Amna, Mahmoud Mazen Shaldan was killed alongside his wife Umm Mazen Shaldan, and their three sons – 15-year-old Mazen Mahmoud Muhammad Shaldan, Muhammad Mahmoud Shaldan (age unknown), and seven-year-old Ahmed Mahmoud Shaldan.

Another son of Amna, 36-year-old Muhammad Mazen Muhammad Shaldan was killed alongside his three-year-old daughter Aseel Muhammad Shaldan, and a four-year-old son Anas Muhammad Shaldan.

Amna’s daughter, 28-year-old Kifayeh Mazen Mahmud Shaldan was also killed.

Mazen Muhammad Shaldan, possibly a son of Muhammad Mazen Muhammad Shaldan, was also mentioned as a victim killed in this incident. Yosef Ismail wrote a tribute and shared a photo of Mazen Muhammad Shalden.

Abo Yaseen Mutasem, son of Amna, shared the news of his family through his post. He wrote “I ask God Almighty to grant patience to our hearts and accept them as righteous martyrs, and we do not praise anyone before God. I hope that everyone who knows them and those who do not know them will forgive them in this world and the hereafter.”

Where possible, names have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.

Where the sources identified the belligerent, all the sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.

The incident occured at approximately 5:08 pm local time.