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On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, one person was reportedly killed and a number were injured following an alleged airstrike on the house of the Abu Maaniya family near the Al-Saidi roundabout in Ma’an, southeast of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.
In a post on Facebook, Hamza Abu Khater shared that a young man, 29-year-old Ramadan Dhifallah Sweilem Abu Maaniya (also known as Abu Moaz), had reportedly been killed in the incident in the Ma’an area, as well as announced that another young man had been injured.
The account, Asad Alshak, posted to Facebook to share an image of Ramadan Dhifallah Abu Maaniya from before the strike.
Ramadan’s brother, Anwar Abu Maaniya, mourned his brother and paid tribute to his life in a post on Facebook, writing “I will never forget the light of your face, my brother. May God bless you.”
In a further post to Facebook, the account Ahali.maen shared another picture of Ramadan, as well as reporting that Ramadan was in his own house when the alleged airstrike hit.
On the same day as the incident, a tweet by the account @Alaqsavoice_Brk claimed that there were a number of injuries as a result of the incident at the Abu Maaniya family home, contrary to previous reports of there being only one injury.
Ramadan Dhifallah Sweilem Abu Maaniya’s name was matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Ma’an (منطقة معن) in Khan Younis (خان يونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.330536, 34.317053. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.