Airwars assessment
On Wednesday October 11th 2023, seven members of the Naseer family, including one child, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike that destroyed the Naseer family house in the town of Beit Lahia in the North Gaza Governorate. Four people were reported injured in this airstrike that occurred without prior warning, causing two buildings to collapse, according to local sources.
At least one victim was reported to be a militant, a leader in the Islamic Jihad group, Musa Naseer.
Facebook user Ahmad Nasseir identified seven victims as: his uncle Hajj Mahdi Ali Naseer (Abu Muhammad), his uncle’s son Ibrahim Mahdi Ali Naseer, his aunt’s husband Ahmed Eid Naseer Abu Haitham and his cousins Musa Ahmed Eid Naseer, Haitham Ahmed Eid Naseer, Ahmed Haitham Naseer and Taher Arif Naseer.
Another relative, Reem Tanboura, extended his ‘deepest condolences and consolation’ to the Naseer family in a Facebook post. He announced the death of four victims: ‘My uncle Ahmed Mohamed Naseer and my cousin martyr Moses Ahmed Naseer. And my cousin the martyr Haitham Ahmed Naseer, and his young son Ahmed Haitham Naseer”. Therefore from this testimony Airwars has quantified Ahmed Haitham Naseer as a child.
A Facebook user Ramez Salem also mourned the death of the Naseer Family, who he described as ‘a good family with established origins and branches in the highest paradise.’
Nabd News reported that Islamic Jihad leader Musa Naseer was killed in his house in Beit Lahia. A number of sources, including Al-Qastal News newspaper, Fox news, and Nabd News reported that Naseer was an Islamic Jihad leader.
The civilian status for three of the victims remains ambiguous. Haitham Ahmed Eid Naseer, Ibrahim Mahdi Ali Naseeir and Taher Arif Naseer were referred to by one source, Ahmed Nasseir, as either “mujahid” or “leader/commander”. As there was no other reporting on their status found by Airwars at the time of publication, these potential combatants have been excluded from the minimum civilian fatality range and included in the maximum combatant range.
The exact time of the strike and further details are unknown. Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
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The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Source: Bilal Nassier facebook -
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Source: Abdullah Hamad facebook -
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Source: Ahmad Nasseir facebook -
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Source: Nasseir Ahmad facebook -
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Source: Nasseir Ahmad facebook -
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Source: Nasseir Ahmad facebook -
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Source: Ramez Salem facebook -
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Source: Ramez Salem facebook