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Airwars Assessment
Around 3:46 PM on Friday, 20 October 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al Arja family house located on George Khalaf Adnan Abu Za Street near the cemetery in Al Janina neighborhood in the town of Rafah, Gaza strip, reportedly killed five civilians and injured between three and seven civilians.
The Palestinian Information Center in its Twitter/X post wrote about five civilians killed in the strike. A Facebook user Adlitaha1 initially reported about three injuries, but later wrote about seven injured people. Further details about the victims are unknown.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Al Geneina (الجنينة) to the east of Rafah (رفح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.296461, 34.243759. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.