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Airwars assessment
On October 20th 2023, a child was reportedly killed and at least three others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Shaheen family home in Khan Yunis, located in the Gaza Strip.
Reporting of the incident identified Shaheen Shaheen as the child who was killed. A series of Facebook posts by Amr Tabash and Omar Arfat capture a man visibly upset, carrying the body of the child, as well as the body of the child in the morgue.
A tweet by user @sadeel_owida identified further injuries to two girls and a woman from the strike, with all transported to Nasser Hospital, while Mahmoud Fouly reported that three children were injured. This is collaborated by images of the children in the hospital which circulated on social media. Simultaneously, sources indicate that the search for missing persons was underway in the aftermath of the incident.
The Ministry of the Interior of Gaza reported on the incident, identifying the strike on the “Shaheen” family in Khan Yunis.
Airwars has matched Shaheen Shaheen’s name to the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of names released on October 26th 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Shaheen Shaheen شاهين شاهين
6 years old
male
killed
Matched to MoH ID 438998726
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the Khan Younis governorate (محافظة خانيونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.336273, 34.319926. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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