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(Previous Incident Code: ISPT135 )
Local reports indicated that one civilian, an 11 year old girl, was killed and seven civilians, including up to four children, were injured after Israeli forces allegedly launched two missiles at a military site in west Khan Younis on August 5th 2022, in the Gaza Strip.
Two Al-Qud militants, Fadel Mustafa Zo’arob, aged 29 to 30, and Mohammed Hasan Al-Bayouk, aged 35, were killed in this attack.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that in addition to the two militants killed, seven civilians, including two children, were injured due to shrapnel scattering in the area. The same strike also caused damage to an ambulance in Muskat Clinic in Qizan An-Najar area.
@Gazapres tweeted that a group of passers by, the Al-Shaer family, were injured, two of them seriously. The injuries were reported as follows:
Injury / Simon Al-Shaer 25 years old
Injury / Shawqi Al-Shaer 9 years old
Injury / Lian Al-Shaer 11 years old
Injury / Marah Al-Shaer 13 years old
Al Jazeera (@AJArabic) tweeted on August 11th that Lian Al-Shaer died as a result of the wounds she sustained during the incident and after receiving treatment at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem. @MyPalestine0 added that Lian had been injured in the head, when shrapnel penetrated the brain and damaged the most sensitive areas.
Lian’s father, Musleh al-Shaer, said in an interview with the Palestinian Information Center that his daughter was heading to the beach with her mother, sisters and female relatives, as usual. Suddenly, a raid took place west of Khan Yunis. Lian was seriously injured, along with a number of children who were in the same event, with moderate to minor injuries.
According to Lian’s father, Lian was an active child and loved school, and she attended the Nawar Educational Center of the Association for Culture and Free Thought in the Palestinian folk art of Dabke, where she led a Dabke team. She was nicknamed the stage butterfly. “Layan amazes us with her lightness of movement, and she performs distinctive folkloric paintings, in addition to her love for Palestinian heritage songs. My child, Lian, is the third among her sisters, but she was the most active and intelligent of them, and the closest to my heart among them.”
Mondoweiss reported that Lian was one of a family of eight and was injured alongside four of her cousins.
Another local reporter, @Ebtisam_mahdi reported that a girl was injured in this attack but did not specify any further information, but posted photos of the young girl.
The strike was reported to have taken place at 4.30pm and multiple local sources referred to the location as being “Hittin site gate”.
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Reports of the incident mention the Hittin site (موقع حطين), a military site north-west of Khan Younis (خان يونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.358625, 34.282039. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.