Geolocation
Airwars assessment
22-year-old Palestinian journalist, Nafez, was reported to have buried 32 members of his family who were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on Tuesday the 24th of October 2023 in the Al Zawayda neighborhood of Deir Al Balah.
According to reports from New Arab News, Nafez had fled Gaza City along with his wife and children in search of a safer area in Al Zawayda. An eyewitness interviewed by the New Arab alleged that their temporary home had been bombed “without warning” and stated that “there were a lot of children there.” This has led, the interviewee stated, to the feeling that “there is death everywhere in Gaza.”
This incident has not currently been corroborated by other sources, and it is unclear whether the 32 alleged victims were killed in this specific strike. As there remains only one source, Airwars has graded this incident as a “single source claim” and will await further information regarding casualties.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Al Zawayda (الزوايدة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.429871, 34.370784. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.