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Airwars Assessment
On the afternoon of October 16th, a number of people, including a child, were reportedly killed and injured as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike, which hit the house of the Abu Hassanein family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Local sources have only specified the death of the child, who remains unnamed, and otherwise claimed a “number” of others had been killed or injured. Specific figures have not yet been released.
Tweets from @PalinfoAr and others reported and included an image of the child who had been killed and was uncovered from the rubble of the Abu Hassanein family home. On Facebook, a post from Mohannah Kafafi also included a video and stated that the child was displaced from one of the families from the Northern Gaza Strip.
Nabd News posted images of the destruction caused by the bombing on the house of the Abu Hassanein family, and a tweet from @AIMayadeenLive stated that the attack was in the vicinity of the military camps police station in the Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip.
On October 9th, 2024 the Airwars Investigations Unit, along with Sky News, published an investigation geolocating and matching airstrike footage released by the Israeli military with incidents in the Airwars archive. In total, Airwars’ team identified 17 strikes leading to civilian harm from the first month of the war, of which the Israeli military itself had published footage. This strike was among the 17. As such this incident has been reclassified as a declared Israeli strike, rather than a likely one.
All sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
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Reports of the incident mention Nuseirat camp (مخيم النصيرات) to the east of Deir al Balah (دير البلح). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed the location down to the following exact coordinates: 31.437817, 34.388418. The Airwars team matched these exact coordinates to a screenshot taken at 0:05 of the strike video shared by the IDF to Twitter/X (see strike reports below).
Imagery: Palestine Post
Imagery: Palestine Post
Imagery: IAFsite
