Airwars assessment
Shortly before 6:28 PM on Sunday, 29 October 2023, at least 20 identified civilians, including four women and at least 11 children, were reportedly killed and at least up to four civilians were injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Al-Khatib family on Al-Nuzha Street in Jabalia, northern Gaza. Multiple posts on Twitter/X from various accounts suggested that the Al-Khatib family home was full of people at the time of the bombing.
Shehab News Agency reported a number of casualties as a result of the incident, with photos showing at least four injured people at the hospital, including a toddler, an elderly man, and two youths. The Gazan Ministry of Interior reported that multiple people had been killed and injured and that people remained under the rubble of the home as a result of the alleged Israeli strike.
The city of Jabalia Al-Thawra’s Facebook account posted the list of the names of victims killed in the attack on al-Khatib and Jumaa houses.
52-year-old Mustafa Hassan Mustafa al-Khatib was killed alongside his 23-year-old son Waseem Mustafa Hasan al-Khatib and his 24-year-old daughter Shorouk Mustafa Hassan al-Jamal (al-Khatib). The son of Shorouk, one-year-old Moatasem Kanaan Farid al-Jamal, was also reportedly killed in the attack.
Mustafa’s brother, 37-year-old Saed Hassan Mustafa Al-Khatib died alongside his wife and their two children, six-year-old son Ibrahim Saed Hassan al-Khatib and two-year-old daughter Celine Saed Hassan al-Khatib.
Two women, 38-year-old Islam Ibrahim Saeed al-Najar (al-Khatib) and 23-year-old Maysoon Muhammad Hassan Obaid (al-Khatib) were also reportedly killed in the alleged Israeli attack on the family home.
Three siblings from the Obaid family (possibly the children of Maysoon Mohammad) were reportedly killed in the attack: a four-year-old boy Nahed Abdul Rahman Nahed Obaid, seven-year-old girl Ibtisam Abdel Rahman Nahed Obaid and a boy (age unknown) Siwar Abdul Rahman Obaid.
Similarly, three young siblings from the Asalia family also lost their lives in the attack, namely, a 14-year-old girl Halima Zaki Musa Asalia, her sister Retal Zaki Musa Asalia (age unknown) and brother, three-year-old Muhannad Zaki Musa Asalia.
The sources also named among the victims killed the 24-year-old man Bassam Youssef Bassam Qaddoura, 51-year-old man Rizk Abdullah Muhammad Nofal, 12-year-old boy Rafiq Ali Rafiq Abu Ghali, and 17-year-old girl Taghreed Rafiq Abu Ghali.
A Shehab News Agency correspondent reported that funeral preparations were being made for the 29 people who had been killed across attacks in Jabalia on the night of 29 October 2023. This included those from the alleged attack on the Al-Khatib family home, as well as alleged attacks on the Jumaa and Nofal family homes.
Where possible, names have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli Military.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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