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On 11th of October, 2023, a 13 year-old girl Dima Hatem Maher Al-Qudra was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the house of Hatem Al-Qudra located in the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The strike was also reported to have injured at least 60 civilians and damaged homes within the surrounding area.
The airstrike was reported by several different news agencies including the Shehab Agency, Nabd News, and Watan News, and all of them referred to more than 60 injured civilians. Hiba Salhiya reported via Facebook that “Nasser Hospital received 60 injuries in various cases”. However, the exact number of the injured civilians is unknown and will be updated by Airwars if new information becomes available.
On the 12th of October, the Qudra family mourned the death of Dima in a Facebook testimony, adding a picture where the girl is wearing a blue hijab: “Dima Hatem Al-Qudra, 13 years old, has ascended [to heaven],” the post said.
On the same day, Dima Hatem Al-Qudra’s teacher, Souad Sheikh Ahmad, posted his message of condolence on Facebook: “My distinguished student (Dima Hatem Al-Qudra) had advanced to the eighth grade… may God have mercy on your pure soul”.
The Al-Qudra family’s Facebook page also mentioned that the family had already lost two family members in previous strikes.
Where possible, Airwars has matched names with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers, released on October 26th.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
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The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Khan Younis (خان يونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.346149, 34.303899. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.