On Tuesday, October 10th 2023, an Israeli airstrike allegedly destroyed a house belonging to the Baroud family in the Austrian neighborhood of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, leading to the deaths of at least seven civilians, including at least two women and four children.

Mohammed Baroud, a relative of the family, stated that the strike came without warning in a social media post on October 10th, and provided the names of the victims – Anas Shadi Baroud (18), Walid Shadi Baroud (16), Yaman Shadi Baroud (5, also referred as “AlYaman Shadi Baroud” by Jales on Twitter), Mahmoud Shadi Baroud (14), “their only little sister” Fadwa Shadi Baroud (10), their mother Umm Anas al-Hila (Baroud), and her mother (their maternal grandmother) whose name was not listed. He mourned the loss, saying “We belong to God and to Him we shall return. May God accept them and strengthen our hearts.” He later attributed the strike to the Israeli military in a post dated October 12th, listing out three homes of the Baroud family that were allegedly destroyed by Israeli military airstrikes.

The victim’s names were corroborated on social media by another possible relative, Raed Baroud.

Airwars has matched the names of all of the civilians killed whose full names were published with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023, which explicitly mentions that names on the list are “victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip”. Therefore this incident has been graded as fair, in addition to another source who attributed the strikes to Israel.

According to Mohammed Baroud, the strikes occurred without warning.

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The local time of the incident is unknown.