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Airwars Assessment
At dawn on Friday, October 12th 2023, four civilians were reportedly killed and a number of civilians injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Sobeih family home located near the Omar bin Al-Khattab Mosque in the al-Dahdouh area in Tal al-Hawa, west of Gaza city in the Gaza Strip.
Further details about the identity of the victims and the exact number of the injured are unknown. The local sources reported about “several” and “a number” of injured, therefore Airwars classified the minimum and maximum number of the injured civilians as 2-2.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
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Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the Omar bin Al Khattab (عمر بن الخطاب) mosque, west of Gaza (غز) city, for which the generic coordinates are: 31.498575, 34.426799. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.