Geolocation
Airwars assessment
On the morning of Sunday, October 22nd 2023, an alleged Israeli bombardment hit Salah Mohammed Kurdieh’s house located west of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 12 identified civilians, including five women and four children, and injuring at least two civilians.
Although there was only scarce information about the circumstances of the incident, the social media tributes by family relatives and friends, including Nahed Shawa, Adel Majid Kurdiya and others, helped to identify names of the victims.
A 59-year-old Salah Mohammed Fahmi Kurdieh was killed alongside his 55-year-old wife Nadia Faruq Muhammad (Kurdieh) Anan, their 20-year-old son Hamza Salah Kurdieh, their two daughters – a 30-year-old Aya Salah Kurdieh and a 25-year-old Alaa Salah Kurdieh, their daughter-in-law, a 31-year-old wife of Ahmad Huda Samir Mahmoud Kurdieh, and their grandchildren – a 14-year-old Salah Ahmed Kurdieh, a 12-year-old Nadia Ahmed Kurdieh, and a one-year-old Maria Ahmed Kurdieh.
Also Salah Mohammed Kurdieh’s father-in-law, Nadia’s father, a 87-year-old Farouk Mohammed Buker Anan (Abu Yasser) and his mother-in-law, 73-year-old Nadia’s mother Suad Mohammad Mohammad Anan (Umm Yasser) were among the victims killed in the strike. Mahmoud M. Kurdieh’s Facebook post did not list Abu Yasser Anan and Umm Yasser Anan’s names among the list of civilian casualties, although all other Airwars’ sources named them. He also reported that the strike occurred in the morning.
A 9-year-old girl named Zeina Ahmed Kurdieh, granddaughter of Salah Mohamed Kurdieh and Nadia Anan, was reported missing by the local sources, but, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023, she was found dead.
Two sons of Salah and Nadia, Anas Salah Kurdieh and Ahmad Salah Kurdieh, were injured and hospitalized in moderate condition after the strike. Based on the ages of their siblings, both have been counted as men.
All of the names of the victims have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.
When sources identified the belligerent, all the sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
The incident occured in the morning.
The victims were named as:
Family members (14)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the city of Rafah (رفح), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.296854, 34.243508. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.