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On the night of Monday, the 23rd of October, 2023, at least 38 civilians, all members of the Al-Aidi and the Dabour families, including at least 23 children and 10 women, were reportedly killed and a number of civilians were injured in an alleged Israeli bombing of the Al-Aidi family house located in Rafah’s Al Geneina neighbourhood, the Gaza Strip.
According to the sources, the Dabour family members were displaced to Rafah from Beit Hanoun in order to search for safety.
Twenty-seven members of the Al-Aidi family and eleven members of the Dabour family were reportedly killed in the attack. The names and the ages of those who died from the Al-Aidi family were listed by several different online sources.
Sources including X/Twitter account @WWIIIAR (a news site covering the Gaza conflict) posted the names of the civilians reported killed in the incident, accompanied by a graphic photo that appears to show at least three dead bodies on the floor of a hallway.
The Al-Aidi family:
57-year-old Nafez Othman Abdel Qader Al-Aidi was killed alongside his 50-year-old wife Rabab Mahmoud Mohammad Al-Aidi and their three children – 21-year-old son Nabil Nafez Othman Al-Aidi, 17-year-old daughter Sabreen Nafez Othman Al-Aidi, and 13-year-old daughter Taleen Nafez Othman Al-Aidi.
Maram Youssef Al-Kafrawi, wife of Mahmoud Nafez Othman Al-Aida and daughter-in-law of Nafiz and Rebab, was killed with her six-year-old son Ahed Mahmoud Nafez Al-Aydi and four-year-old daughter Rabab Mahmoud Nafez Al-Aydi.
The second wife of Mahmoud Nafez Othman Al-Aida, Maryam Hamdi Abdel Hadi, was also identified among the killed victims. Maryam Abdel Hadi was reported to be Egyptian.
40-year-old Hani Mohammad Ali Al-Aidi was killed alongside his 38-year-old wife Sawsan Al-Arja and their son, Moaz Hani Mohammad Al-Aidi, who was just five months old.
Among the victims were also the three children of Muhammad Nabil Al-Aidi: his 15-year-old daughter Remas Muhammad Nabil Al-Aidi, 10-year-old son Adam Muhammad Nabeel Al-Aidi and nine-year-old son Renad Muhammad Nabil Al-Aidi were also among the victims of killed in the alleged strike
37-year-old woman Reem Khamis Barakat, the wife of Ahmed Nabil Al-Aidi, was killed alongside her 13-year-old son, Yazan Ahmed Al-Aidi.
A woman only referred to as “Ali Nabil Al-Aidi’s wife”, 29 years old, was killed along with her three sons: nine-year-old Nabil Ali Nabil Al-Aidi, eight-year-old Wissam Ali Nabil Al-Aidi, and two-month-old infant Qais Ali Nabil Al-Aidi.
Three children of Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi were also the victims of the strike, 10-year-old girl Ghazal Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi, six-year-old girl Hala Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi, and five-month-old baby boy Nabil Bilal Nabil Al-Aidi.
Seven-year-old girl Siwar Moeen Abu Saleh Suleiman, a 21-year-old woman, who was described as a pharmacist, Sally Nabeel Ali Al-Aidi, and a 22-year-old woman named Enas, known as the fiancée of Ibrahim Abu Sela’a, were also reported to have been killed in the alleged bombing.
A friend of Sally Al-Aidi mourned her death and paid tribute to her life in a post on Facebook. Rawan Jehad described Sally saying, “beautiful smile, talk and heart, my love, Sally, you are very dear to me.”
Another friend of Sally, Mariam Fareed, reported in a Facebook post that Sally was found dead after being buried under the rubble for 21 hours.
A relative of the Aidi family, Doha Naser, described Rabab as having “a tender heart” and wrote that her daughter, Sabreen, had dreams of becoming a doctor.
The Dabour family:
Based on the X/Twitter account of journalist @Yasser_Gaza, eleven members of the Dabour family, including six or seven children and two women, were also killed in the strike. He also reported that “the Dabour family, residents of Beit Hanoun (north Gaza) was displaced to Rafah (south Gaza), thinking it was safer, but they were killed by Israel.”
44-year-old Mazan Muhammad Khalil Dabour was killed alongside his five children -his 17-year-old son Khaled Mazan Muhammad Dabour, 19-year-old daughter Azza Mazen Muhammad Dabour, 14-year-old son Muhammad Mazen Muhammad Dabour, seven-year-old daughter Rahaf Mazen Muhammad Dabour, and a daughter Mai Mazen Muhammad Dabour who was a young child.
A brother of Mazen, 39-year-old Osama Muhammad Khalil Dabour was killed along with his wife Sumoud Abu Harbid, and their three children – nine-year-old son Sherif Osama Muhammad Dabour, six-year-old daughter Dana Osama Muhammad Dabour, and three-year-old daughter Elaine Osama Dabour.
Sumoud Abu Harbid is possibly 29-year-old Sumoud Suhail Rajeh Dabour, matched to MoH ID 804786549.
Images shared on Facebook by family member Mahdy al-Aidi, showed a funeral taking places for the victims of the alleged Israeli bombing. Family gathered next to the shrouded bodies to pray for them.
On the 25th of October, one Facebook user named Alaa Hharbeed, mourning the death of Osama Dabour and his wife Samoud Abu Harbid, posted commemorative photos of their three young children.
Facebook users Waem Raed and Wafaa Ahmad, in turn, posted a collage of pictures of some of the 22 children who were killed in the deadly strike.
The official Facebook page of Rafah City posted a series of photographs on the 23rd of October, showing the destroyed Al-Aidi family home which it commented was “inhabited by women and children only”. The images showed that the home was turned to rubble, and men were searching amongst the ruins for the survivors.
On the day after the alleged bombing, the 24th of October, Ibrahim Aidi wrote, in a Facebook post, that the Al-Aidi house which had been destroyed was “inhabited by more than 80 displaced people. Most of them are children, and so far 45 people are still missing under the rubble”.
Where possible, names have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
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Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the neighbourhood of al Geneina (الجنينة), to the east of Rafah (رفح). Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further. The generic coordinates for al Geneina are: 31.272972, 34.265706.
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