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On Friday, October 13, 2023, an alleged Israeli strike hit the al-Saafin family home and reportedly killed at least one person, 31-year-old engineer Ahmed Arif Amer al-Saafin, in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. The home was in a residential area and near the Al-Dahshan bakery, east of Gaza City.
Many of Ahmed’s family members mourned him in Facebook posts, including his uncle Tareq Al Saafin and his cousin Mohammed Bashir. Both sources posted an image of Ahmed smiling, taken before the incident.
Ahmed Arif Amer al-Saafin has been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers released on October 26, 2023.
This incident likely took place around midnight local time on October 12-13, 2023 as this is when the earliest report of the incident, a Facebook post by Musab Abdelkarim, was published.
All sources that identified a belligerent attributed the strike to the Israeli military.
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Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of al Zaytoun (الزيتون) to the east of Gaza city (غزة). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for al Zaytoun are: 31.485479, 34.444885.