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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0301

Location

جوار قاعة ليلة العمر, Vicinity of Lailat al Omar Hall, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
On Tuesday, 17th October, 2023, an alleged Israeli bombing hit the Al-Qahwaji family house located east of the Lailat Al-Omar hall in the Abu Shahla neighborhood area in Bani Suhaila, east of the town of Khan Yunis, reportedly injuring four civilians. The attack completely destroyed the house belonging to Mahmoud Kamel Al-Qahwaji. A number of…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332g

Location

قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ, Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
On Tuesday, October 17th 2023, at least one young male civilian was reportedly killed, but the precise details of the incident, including location and time, are not yet known. The victim was identified by friends and family on social media as a 22-year old man named Youssef Naji Fares al-Hayek. Family member Haya Bashar wrote…

Summary

Published
1 April 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0290

Location

جوار مستشفى الكويتي, Vicinity of al Kuwaiti Hospital, Rafah, Palestinian territories
On Tuesday morning, October 17 2023, between 12 and 28 civilians were reported killed, including at least 2 children, and others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a five-storey house behind the al-Kuwaiti hospital in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza. While one source on social media claimed that there were 12 killed…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
12–28
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0302

Location

محيط المستشفى الكويتي, Vicinity of Kuwaiti Hospital, Rafah, Palestinian territories
At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th 2023, between 17 and 26 civilians were reported killed, including at least seven women and five children, one of whom was an infant. Dozens of others, including children, were also reported wounded in the alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Abu Lebda family near the Kuwaiti Hospital…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
17–26
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0286

Location

بطن السمين, Batn al Sameen, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a five-storey residential building, where at least nine families reportedly lived. At least seven members of the Zorob family along with at least 18 other civilians were killed, while at least four civilians were injured - including children. The house was said to…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
24–31
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0291

Location

حي التنور، رفح, Al Tanour area, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
On October 17th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the al-Jazzar family house in the Al Tanour area, in east Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing up to 12 people, including 11 members of the al-Jazzar family, and injuring 12 others, including three children. 63 year old Zaki Mahmoud al-Jazzar was killed along with…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
8–12
Civilians reported injured
12
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0303

Location

مخيم خانيونس, Khan Younis camp, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
During the night of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, at least 21 civilians were killed and a number of others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the al-Jabri family in the Emirat neighborhood, Khan Yunis camp. CNN News and Safa quoted the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, which said that the…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
21
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0289

Location

مسجد علي بن أبي طالب, رفح, Vicinity of Ali mosque, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
At the dawn of Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a residential building located on Jame’ Ali Street north of Ali Mosque in the Al Shaout  (Al-Shawut) neighborhood in the western part of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, reportedly killing a brother-in-law of the Palestinian journalist Hatem Omar, his wife…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
28
Civilians reported injured
54
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332a

Location

خان يونس, Khan Younis, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
Four members of the al-Masry family were reportedly killed and three others were injured by an alleged Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis during the dawn hours of the 17th of October, 2023. The killed and injured civilians came from three generations of the al-Masry family. 5-year-old Amir Hammam Salem Samara al-Masry, his mother, 30-year-old Asmaa…

Summary

Published
1 April 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0278

Location

المستشفى الاهلي العربي, al Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza, Palestinian territories
In perhaps the most well-known, and hotly debated, incident from the war in Gaza, civilians were killed while sheltering at the Al Ahli hospital on October 17th 2023. The incident was widely-reported, with a fierce dispute as to whether the civilian casualties were caused by a Palestinian militant rocket fired at Israel that fell short…

Summary

Published
17 October 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Civilians reported killed
63–471
Civilians reported injured
14–314
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military, Palestinian Militants
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0293

Location

الشيخ رضوان, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Haniyeh family house located in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City resulted in the death of at least 14 members of the Haniyeh family, while a large number of family members sustained moderate injuries, according to Gaza Now Facebook post. Many of those…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
14
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0312

Location

رفح, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
On 17th October, 2023, an alleged Israeli strike reportedly hit the Abdel-Al family home on George Street in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing 28 year old Nour El-Din Mahmoud Abdel-Al and injuring others. A Facebook post by journalist Adel Zourob reported that a deceased person had arrived at the hospital…

Summary

Published
1 March 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332b

Location

Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
On October 17th, 2023, Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Balbisi (25) was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The Martyrs of Gaza Twitter/X account posted a tribute by Muhammad's friend Hamoud Abbadi, quoting him as saying, "Who said that parting does not change the features? We were always together... in everything, laughing, going out,…

Summary

Published
1 April 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0294

Location

طريق البريد, Al Barid Road, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
On October 17, 2023, at least 10 people, members of the Barbakh family, were killed and at least five others were wounded during an alleged Israeli airstrike at the Barbakh family home on Al Barid road, central Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The attack, which struck the property located opposite the post office in central…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
10–20
Civilians reported injured
5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332c

Location

محافظة دير البلح, Deir Al Balah, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, at least ten civilians were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. The identified casualties were members of the Radwan family. Nebal Mohammad was killed with six of her children. Her five daughters, 21-year old Duha Radwan, 14-year old Maryam Radwan, Saha Radwan, 6-year old…

Summary

Published
17 October 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0295

Location

تل السلطان غرب رفح, Tal Al Sultan, Western Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
During the morning of Tuesday, the 17th October 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces allegedly bombed the three-storey residential building belonging to the Abu Salima family, located on First Street in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah in the Gaza strip. The strike is reported to have killed at least nine family members,…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
9–10
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332d

Location

مخيم بوريجي, Bureji camp, Deir al-Balah, Palestinian territories
On October 17, 2023, six-year-old Aya (Ayat) Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun and her five-year-old brother Abdullah Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun died in an alleged Israeli airstrike that impacted their home in the Gaza Strip. Though sources did not include a specific location for the strike, Facebook user Al-Bureij Gathering remembered the children as “beautiful martyrs of…

Summary

Published
29 March 2025
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0297

Location

مدرسة المغازي الاعدادية للبنين, Al Maghazi Preparatory School for Boys, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
During the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th of October, 2023, at least ten civilians were killed and dozens were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on an UNRWA school located in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip where 4,000 people were taking refuge. However, the death toll may be significantly higher as Twitter/X…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Education
Civilians reported killed
10–24
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

TS649

Location

قرية كالوته, Kalotah village, Shirawa district, Afrin countryside, Aleppo, Syria
During the night of Monday, October 16, 2023, a child, Muhammad Qushu Ali, was injured by alleged Turkish and Sham Legion military artillery shells in the village of Kalotah, in the Afrin countryside of northern Syria. Muhammad Qushu Ali’s age remains unclear: according to the Afrin post, the child was 3 years old. However, Efrin…

Summary

Published
16 October 2023
Strike Type
Artillery
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Turkish Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0280

Location

مخيم البريج, Bureij camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
At least 92 civilians, including 40 children and 28 women, were killed and at least 13 others were injured by a declared Israeli airstrike on the Bureij camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. The strike targeted and killed Ayman Nofal, a security and intelligence leader in Hamas also…

Summary

Published
27 August 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
IDP or Refugee Camp, Residential
Civilians reported killed
92
Civilians reported injured
13
Military actors reported killed
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0298

Location

بالقرب من حي الجنينة، رفح, Vicinity of Al-Geneina neighbourhood, Rafah City, Rafah, Palestinian territories
During the afternoon of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, 20 members of the Abu al-Naja family, including at least eight women, two of whom were pregnant, and at least eight children and four men were reportedly killed and dozens reportedly injured when Israeli aircrafts allegedly struck the homes of the Abu al-Naja and Madhi families located…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
20
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4848

Location

محيط بلدة الشيخ يوسف, the “‘Al-Qaswa”’ IDP camp in the vicinity of Sheikh Yousef area, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
In the early morning and in the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th October 2023, ten airstrikes allegedly perpetrated by Russian forces on the “Al-Qaswa” IDP camp and civilian homes in the outskirts of the town of Sheikh Youssef in the western countryside of Idlib, Syria, injured four civilians, including two women and two girls. The Syrian…

Summary

Published
17 October 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential, IDP or Refugee Camp
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Accidents related to conflict, Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Russian Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0244

Location

الزيتون, Al Zeitoun, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On October 16th 2023 at least three people - 37 year old journalist Abdulhadi Habib, his mother-in-law, 54 year old Buthina Al Tatar, and her grandchild, three year old Amer Bilal Al-Tatar, were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in the Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza. Multiple sources agree that family…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
3–4
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0268

Location

مركز الدفاع المدني في حي التفاح, Civil defence center, Al Tuffah, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On 16th October, 2023, at least six men working in the Palestinian civil defense were killed, and another seven employees were injured (two in a critical condition) as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the civil defense center in Al Tufah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. All victims were reportedly providing humanitarian services…

Summary

Published
8 October 2023
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Healthcare
Civilians reported killed
6
Civilians reported injured
7
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0269

Location

جوار مسجد الكنز, Vicinity of al Kanz Mosque, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On October 16th 2023, 11 civilians were reportedly killed and between 10 and 17 others were injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment for the Ammar family near Al-Kanz Mosque in the Al-Rimal neighborhood  in central Gaza City. Airwars identified the names of 11 members of the Ammar family who were killed.…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
11
Civilians reported injured
10–17
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0254

Location

بجوار مخبز عجور, Vicinity of Ajour Bakery, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On Monday, October 16th 2023, at least 10 civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike at the al-Ghazali Junction near the Ajjour Bakery in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City. According to some sources, the strike hit a three-storey residential building while others reported that it hit…

Summary

Published
1 February 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Civilians reported killed
10–21
Civilians reported injured
20–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0240

Location

محيط دوار درابيه, Vicinity of the Darabiyah roundabout, Gaza, Palestinian territories
Around 22:30 on Monday, October 16th, 2023, at least four people were reportedly killed, including a pregnant woman and her child, and at least one other injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the house belonging to the Siam family near the Darabiyah roundabout in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City.…

Summary

Published
1 April 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
4
Civilians reported injured
2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0243

Location

جوار مسجد عبد الله عزام, Vicinity of Abdullah Azzam Mosque, North Gaza, Palestinian territories
Around 8:00 in the morning of Monday, October 16th 2023, a group of civilians were reportedly injured and killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike near Abdullah Azzam Mosque as they were returning to the city of Beit Hanoun. Shehab News Agency, Al-Ayyam and other local sources reported that ambulances were called to the scene. Although…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Religious
Civilians reported killed
2
Civilians reported injured
2–4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0238

Location

بالقرب المستشفى الأهلي العربي, Vicinity of Arab National Hospital, Gaza, Palestinian territories
On Monday, October 16, 2023, seven civilians were killed, including a 39-year-old freelance journalist of al-Aqsa TV Issam Mohammad Sabhi Bahar, two women and four children, and several others, including an infant, were injured, in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Bahar family house near the Arab National Hospital in Gaza city. A Facebook post by…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
7–8
Civilians reported injured
2–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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Incident Date

16 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0255

Location

جوار محطة بنزين الراضي, Vicinity of Radi Petrol Station, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
On Monday, 16 October 2023, at least five civilian members of the Dr. Fakhri Radi family, including two women and three children, were killed, and large number of civilians were reportedly injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Radi family’s home located behind the Radi Petrol Station in the west of the Nuseirat camp…

Summary

Published
1 January 2024
Strike Type
Airstrike
Infrastructure
Residential
Civilians reported killed
5
Civilians reported injured
12–24
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Israeli Military
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