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Airwars assessment
On October 22nd 2023 at dawn, at least four people were reportedly killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike on their family home in the Al-Manara neighbourhood located southeast of Khan Yunis.
All of the sources reported that four people had been killed in the strike. Reporting on the incident identified Salama Issa Muhammad Abu Taha and his two sons, Issa Salama Issa Abu Taha and Hamada Salama Issa Abu Taha as killed in the strike. A neighbour, Musa Issa Musa Al-Muzain, was also reportedly killed in the strike. @ShehabAgency was the only source to report that three sons of Salama – Youssef, Issa, and Taha – were killed in the strike. Salama, his sons Issa and Hamada, and Musa’s names were all matched names with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers released on October 26th but Taha and Youssef’s names was not found.
Relatives of the Abu Tama family paid tribute to their family members on Facebook with images of the victims. A Facebook post from the Abuta family in the homeland and diaspora referred to Issa as “one of the members of the media committee on the official website”.
The sources further identified that the Abu Taha family home is located next to Sayyid Qutb mosque.
In cases where sources attributed responsibility for the strike, they held the Israeli military responsible.
The incident occured around dawn.
The victims were named as:
Family members (3)
The victims were named as:
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the Al Manara (المنارة) neighbourhood of the city of Khan Younis (خان يونس), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.315061, 34.309542. We were unable to find a boundary shapefile for the neighbourhood, and due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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Source: The Abuta family in the homeland and diaspora