Geolocation
Airwars assessment
On 9 October at approximately 3:30 am, at least four civilians, including two women and two children, were killed and at least one further civilian injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house in Tal Al-Zaatar, located in the north of the Gaza Strip.
A report from the Defense of Children International identified 8-month-old Rakan Sameh Ahmad as killed in the strike intended for his family’s neighbour’s house. In addition, three members of the Hamdan family were killed, including Umm Mukhles Hamdan, her son Moataz Ibrahim Hamdan and her daughter Amani Ibrahim Hamdan. Alongside this, Ikhlas Ibrahim Hamdan, sibling of Moataz and Amani, was injured. Images posted by Aljazeera show four children identified as being injured in Tal al-Zaatar area.
The two-storey house that five families inhabited was ‘completely destroyed’, according to a report from Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. Simultaneously, homes nearby were affected with a tweet from @Wael Ouda describing the attempts to rescue civilians as ‘difficult’.
This narrative collaborates with a report from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) and a series of tweets from user @Shebab Agency. All reporting of the incident indicate that the Israeli Military were responsible for the attack and @Wael Ouda added that the strike occurred “without warning”.
Airwars was unable to match the names of victims with Palestinian MoH data released on October 26th 2023.
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The incident occured at approximately 3:30 am local time.
The victims were named as:
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Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Tal al Zaatar (تل الزعتر) to the east of Jabalia (جباليا). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to find boundaries for the neighbourhood and to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for Tal al Zaatar are: 31.533112, 34.504583.