An alleged Israeli airstrike that hit the civilian home of the Younis family in Nuseirat refugee camp on the 8th of October 2023 killed six members of the family, five of them civilians, and injured a child.

While reports immediately after the strike reported a lower death toll, later reports were agreed that six civilians had been killed. SND Palestine published images of the funerals. Reports also mention one child who was pulled from the rubble alive.

The victims were identified in local reporting as: Ayman Younis (50 years old), his wife Areej, and their children Abdul Aziz (son, 14 years old), Alaa (daughter, 20 years old), Hala (daughter, 18 years old), and Lina (daughter, 16 years old). The child who was injured has not been identified by name. Ayman Younis was identified as a militant in a Facebook post by Al-Tabaeen Mosque, which referred to Ayman as a “Qassam Mujahid leader”. Therefore, he has not been counted among the civilian harm toll.

A condolence message was posted for the family by the aunt or uncle of Areej and the Board of Directors of the Ashkelon People’s Association.

Al Mezan reported that the strike resulted in the complete destruction of the four-storey house of the Al-Assar family and three neighbouring houses.

Images showed at least two bodies of the victims wrapped in the Hamas flag.

Where possible, names have been matched with the list of nearly 7,000 names published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health on October 26th, 2023.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces. A tweet from @SafaPs specified that the bombing occurred without warning.

On October 9th, 2024 the Airwars Investigations Unit, along with Sky News, published an investigation geolocating and matching airstrike footage released by the Israeli military with incidents in the Airwars archive. In total, Airwars’ team identified 17 strikes leading to civilian harm from the first month of the war, of which the Israeli military itself had published footage. This strike was among the 17. As such this incident has been reclassified as a declared Israeli strike, rather than a likely one.