Geolocation
Airwars assessment
During the evening of Friday, October 13th 2023, a 41-year old journalist of the local Al-Aqsa Radio Hossam Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on citizens’ homes in the northern Gaza Strip.
Various media outlets, including Aljazeera, BBC Arabic, AL Rabia TV, and Nabd news as well as professional associations, including Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom, Journalists Support Committee, and Palestinian media center, reported about the journalist’s death and mourned his loss in the tributes on the social media.
According to the Facebook testimony by Abu Albaraa Mohammed, “Al-Aqsa Radio celebrated its righteous son and one of its media cadres, journalist Hossam Mubarak (Abu Muhammad), who was martyred this evening in a treacherous Zionist bombing in the northern Gaza Strip.” Eyad Hasan ABu Reida called the late Hossam a “beloved colleague, son of the Al-Aqsa Radio family.” The testimonies also share an image of the killed journalist – a middle-aged bearded man in a striped T-shirt. According to his Facebook profile, he used to live in Beit Lahia and studied at the Islamic University of Gaza.
The civilian casualty name has been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
The incident occured in the evening.
The victims were named as:
Hossam Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak حسام مبارك
41 years old
male
killed
Matched to MoH ID 931521728
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the North Gaza governorate (محافظة شمال غزة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.544243, 34.510400. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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