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Airwars assessment
On Monday October 23rd, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a house belonging to the Mohsen Family in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, a residential area in north-western Gaza. The strike was reported to have caused deaths and injuries, although the exact number of civilians killed and injured is unclear.
The airstrike was initially reported at 11.34 am, by the Ministry of Interior. It was further repeated by multiple local news agencies, who emphasised the likelihood of injured and killed civilians.
Al Jazeera Palestine further reported on the event. Their footage posted on Facebook shows a street in chaos: buildings reduced to rubble, cars destroyed and civilians in panic searching for lost ones. A scene shows a group of men holding what appears to be a body in a sheet and 0:20 seconds into the video, a blurred out body can be seen lying in the rubble. Multiple screams and shouting can be heard throughout the video. However no sources provided details regarding either the exact number of victims or their identities.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces. Though the strike was reported by multiple outlets, the repetition of claims has led Airwars to grade this strike as weak, and will await further information regarding civilian harm.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan (الشيخ رضوان) in Gaza City (مدينة غزة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.531545, 34.464841. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
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