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On Sunday, October 15th 2023, at least 22 civilian members of the Al-Taweel family, including nine women and seven children, were reportedly killed and an unknown number were wounded in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the house of the al-Taweel family in Camp 5, Nuseirat, central Gaza strip. Khalil al Ghafari stated that the house was bombed without warning and that there were “martyrs, children and women under the rubble.”
A Facebook testimony by Tagamo, a possible relative of the family, helped to identify 22 deceased family members by name. A 64-year old Professor Abdelaziz Saeed Muhammad al-Taweel (Abu Mazen) was killed alongside his wife, a 54-year old Tukween Ibrahim Ali al-Taweel, and her sister Haifa al-Taweel. The professor and Tukween’s 28-year old daughter Rasha Abdel Aziz Saeed al-Taweel and Rasha’s daughter Tukween al-Taweel were also killed.
Among the victims of the strike were also Abu al-Majd al-Taweel along with his first wife, a 45-year old Tughreed Khamees Isma’il al-Taweel and their 25-year old son Majd Ibrahim Saeed al-Taweel as well as his second wife 26-year old Mona al-Taweel and their daughter Hind al-Taweel.
The testimony further mentions the deceased sons of Abdel Nasser al-Taweel, namely a 37-year old Saeed Ridwan Saeed al-Taweel who was killed alongside his wife Samah al-Taweel and their three daughters whose names were not provided; Abdel’s other son Bahjat Abu Tamer who was killed alongside his 33-year old wife Rasha Sameer Muhammad al-Taweel and their two sons, an 8-year old Tamer Bahjat Abdel Naser al-Taweel and a 5-year old Nasser Bahjat Abdel Nasser al-Taweel. Facebook user Tawi posted a video showing a funeral procession for Saeed Ridwan Saeed al-Taweel.
The al-Taweel family has also lost the “activist and initiator”, a 52-year old woman Tufaha Saeed Muhammad al-Taweel (Umm Saed), and the children of Zaki al-Taweel – a 31-year old son Ahmed al-Taweel Abu Omar (Abu Wael) and a 28-year old daughter Mariam Zaki Yusuf al-Taweel.
Musab al-Taweel, a relative of the family, mourned the death of Abu al-Majd al-Taweel, Abu Mazen al-Taweel, and Saeed al-Taweel Abu Abdullah, adding that a large number of the family was killed in the “hideous massacre.” He also shared the images of some family members killed in the attack.
Only one source, Lawir Mahmoud Al-Namrati, mentioned wounded from the al-Taweel family but did not specify how many.
Al Jazeera shared a video of the widespread destruction caused by the bombing, reporting that their correspondent “monitors the effects of destruction from the bombing of the home of the Mukhtar of the Al-Tawil family in the Nuseirat camp in Gaza.” A Facebook user Mokhayaam reported that the place was “leveled completely, ”sharing a video of the destroyed building. Palestine Post shared images of the rescue efforts, saying that the search for victims was still ongoing. A Facebook user Ahmed Adress wrote that there were dozens of bodies of the victims transported from al-Shifa hospital to mass graves, sharing images of the bodies shrouded in white funeral cloth.
Where possible, names have 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.
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The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention Al Nuseirat Camp 5 (مخيم النصيرات 5) northeast of Deir Al Balah (دير البلح). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed the location down to the following exact coordinates: 31.452843, 34.390054.