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On October 23th 2023, the family home of the Abu Senima family, located in the Saudi neighborhood west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, was hit by an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing a young boy named Mohamed Abu Sunima.
Mohamed Abu Senima, according to various Facebook posts, was a football player for the Palestinian Score Academy. In a post made on Facebook by @Abou Seddick he stated “May God have mercy on him, forgive him, dwell him in spacious gardens, and give his family patience and solace” along with an image of Mohamed, who looks to have been under the age of 18. A post from Muhammad Sidr stated that Mohamed’s brother Mahmoud had been killed the day before.
No information was available about additional victims of the attack.
Airwars was not able to match Mohamed Abu Sunima’s name with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of names, October 26th 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the Saudi neighborhood (حيّ الصعيدي) to the west of Rafah (رفح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.315564, 34.238917. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.