At around 4 a.m. on Thursday October 12th 2023, at least fifteen people were reportedly killed and dozens of civilians, including at least five children depicted in images, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Al-Mutawaq family, located on Al-Nuzha street in Jabalia Al-Balad, in the north of the Gaza strip. According to Palestine Post News, the attack happened in the morning without a prior warning.

Shehab Agency initially reported that injuries as well as possible deaths were sustained from the strike. This early report was followed by an update that 15 people had been killed. Palestine Post stated that the alleged strike had resulted in “dozens of injuries and severe damage to the surrounding homes”. Several other news outlets and journalists, including the Al-Ghadeer News Network, GazaNews_BRK, Alhaya.ps, and Safa Agency, also reported 15 deaths.

A journalist, Ahmad Alabrash, posted an update on the incident on Facebook, attaching an image of a severely injured child: “I am now in the Indonesian hospital. There is no description of the horror of the two massacres in Jabalia against the Al-Mutawaq and Shihab family”. A Facebook user, Abo Yazan Abd Alla, shared disturbing pictures of the injured young children being carried to a hospital.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.