Geolocation
Airwars assessment
On the morning of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, an Israeli airstrike allegedly hit a residential building belonging to Abu issa family in Deir al-Balah, a town in the Central Gaza Strip around 14 kilometers south of Gaza City. Local media sources reported that a number of civilians were killed and injured, citing the Ministry of Interior in Gaza. The Palestinian Press Agency SAFA wrote that the victims of the strike were transferred from the place of the strike to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the governorate.
No additional information was available about the number of victims and their identities.
Only one original source reported on the resulting civilian harm from the alleged Israeli airstrike, therefore Airwars has graded the civilian harm status as “weak”.
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The incident occured in the morning.
Summary
Sources (6) [ collapse]
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Deir al Balah (دير البلح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.418995, 34.349442. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.