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On Sunday, October 29th 2023, eight members of the al-Nuwairi family, including a pregnant woman and children, were reportedly killed and two family members were injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit their home to the west of Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Alaa H. Al-Nuwairi, a family member of those killed, wrote about the deaths of her family via Facebook. Alaa mourned the loss of her father and mother, Professor Hassan Ahmed al-Nuwairi and his 56-year-old wife Maryam Atiwi Juma al-Nuwairi, who died alongside their son and Alaa’s brother, al-Hakim Ahmed Hassan al-Nuwairi.
Their son Dr. Ali Hassan al-Nuwairi and their daughter Aya Hassan al-Nuwairi were injured. Heiiam Alnuweiri posted to Facebook that the two were seriously wounded in the attack. According to Twitter/X user@abrahammatar, Dr. Ali Hassan Al-Nuwairi sustained a severe spinal injury in the alleged Israeli attack.
Al-Hakim’s wife, Maysoon Muhammad al-Nuwairi, and their two sons, Moatasem Ahmed al-Nawiri and Hassan Ahmed al-Nuwairi were also reportedly killed in the attack. A Facebook post from Maysoon Diab Awad reported that al-Hakim al-Nuwairi was a professor and that his wife Maysoon Muhammad Al-Nuwairi was a doctor. Alaa H. al-Nuwairi, al-Hakim’s brother, remembered his brother as his “support” and said Maysoon was not only his sister-in-law, but “my third sister who shares everything with me.”
The wife of the injured Ali Hassan Al-Nuwairi, Dr. Enas Mahmoud al-Haji Youssef, was also reported to have died as a result of the attack alongside their son Hassan Ali Hassan al-Nuwairi. Multiple sources reported that Enas was pregnant at the time of her death, with English-language Twitter/X source @GazaMartyrs reporting specifically that she was six months pregnant.
According to the sources, Dr. Ali Hassan al-Nuwairi and Dr. Enas Mahmoud al-Haji were both doctors. Dr. Ali Hassan al-Nuwairi was an orthopedic surgeon while Enas was an emergency physician at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, and was preparing to be certified in Family Medicine at the time of her death. Enas was described by Twitter/X user Dr. Enraheem from Gaza @abrahammatar as a talented senior doctor in the emergency department at Aqsa Hospital. He added an image of a young woman holding her son in her hands.
Twitter/X account “Martyrs of Gaza” additionally shared that Enas and Ali Hassan’s son, Hassan Ali Hassan al-Nuwairi, was reportedly three and a half years old when he too was killed in the attack. Martyrs of Gaza described him as “beautiful, intelligent, and resembling his parents in everything who aspired to become a doctor.”
Facebook post from Ahmed Mah, classmate and colleague of al-Hakim Ahmed Hassan al-Nuwairi, reported that his classmate was patient, light-hearted, and good-natured. He added an image of a young bearded man in a striped T-shirt.
Where possible, Airwars has matched names with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers released on October 26th, 2023.
One name was presented a partial reconciliation: Maysoon Muhammad al-Nuwairi may be the married name of 23-year-old Maysoon Muhammad Hassan Obaid (ID 407663251); this has been categorised as a ‘partial match’ by Airwars researchers given that the full name did not match.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.
The incident occured at approximately 12:30 pm local time.
The victims were named as:
Family members (10)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Nuseirat (النصيرات), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.450065, 34.392934. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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