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On October 31, 2023, shortly before 7:45 AM, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit Tal Al Hawa, a neighbourhood in the south of Gaza City, and injured a number of civilians. Al Jazeera, the Shehab Agency, and all other sources available to Airwars reported that the strike injured multiple civilians, but none of them specified an exact number.
Video from Al Jazeera Palestine shows an injured man being transported from a donkey-drawn wooden cart to a medical facility. Al Jazeera, along with other news agencies such as Shehab Agency and the Quds Network, claimed that people were resorting to transporting the injured on animal drawn carts due to the fuel crisis in Gaza.
However, Facebook account, Qadaya Al Ummah claimed that the animal-drawn carts are necessary because the Israeli military will bomb “anything moving in the streets, including medical crews and ambulances”.
Video footage shows at least one man who had been injured by the strike, but the identities of the civilian victims is not known.
When sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Tal Al Hawa (تل الهوى) in Gaza City (مدينة غزة), for which the generic coordinates are: lat, lon. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.