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Brothers Hammad Mahmoud Harara (Abu Mahmoud Harara), Taha Mahmoud Harara, Mohamed Mahmoud Harara, and their cousin Fourat Jamal Harara were killed and an unknown number of others were injured at approximately 17:30 on 08 October 2023. They were killed in their home on Al-Mantar Street in the east of the Al-Shujaiya neighbourhood in east Gaza City as the result of an alleged Israeli airstrike.
Most sources wrote that four civilians were killed in the strike, however the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Gaza and Al Mezan cited five deaths as a result of the airstrike attributed to Israeli forces. The cousin of those killed, Linda Harara, posted about their death via Facebook and the Harara family identified the three brothers as “sons of the late Hajj Abu Younis Harara”.
Multiple news agencies, including Shehab Agency and Anadolu Agency, reported the alleged Israeli airstrike on the Harara family home. A tweet from @absalem88 gave the location of the Harara family home as Al-Mantar Street to the east of the Al-Shujaiya neighbourhood in east Gaza City and Al Mezan reported that the house was completely destroyed.
Tweets from two accounts wrote that ambulances rushed to the scene to transport the injured, but neither gave an exact number of injured in the incident. Anadolu Agency published that medical sources reported seven people injured as a result of the alleged Israeli airstrike on both the Harara family home and another strike on a house near the Yarmouk Mosque. It is unclear exactly how many of those seven were injured at the Harara home, so the injury range for this assessment has been put at between two and seven.
Airwars has matched all names identified in this assessment with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list released on October 26th.
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The incident occured at approximately 5:30 pm local time.
The victims were named as:
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Source: Ayman Zeyad -
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Source: Nawaya 24
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Al Shujaiya (الشجاعي) to the east of Gaza city (غزة). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Al Shujaiya are: 31.494122, 34.475567.