On Friday, June 7th 2024, Israeli military aircraft allegedly bombed a house near the Al-Shamaa Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City. Witnesses reported that up to eleven people were killed and 10 others injured in the incident. The houses of the Abu Daf and Tafesh families were destroyed, and neighbouring homes were damaged.

According to a post by Rania Alkhodary, four of those killed were members of the Tafesh family who had been displaced from their home and were sheltering in the home of the Abu Daf family. Khaled Safi mourning the loss of several in-laws from the Tafesh family, expressed his grief on Twitter/X, stating, “May God have mercy on them and accept them as martyrs.”

In a video interview, posted by Quds News on Twitter/X, an eyewitness described the alleged bombing as occurring without warning and reported that two of the killed victims were girls and one was a young man. This witness also reported that an elderly woman suffered from a head injury in the bombing. Sama News reported that ten others had been wounded in the attack.

Another video, originally posted by the local journalist Islam Bader and shared on Twitter/X by Khaled Safi, showed Bader describing the scene of the incident and the immense scale of the damage to the Abu Daf and Tafesh family homes. Bader reported that, at the time, eight civilians had been killed in the incident and more remained trapped under the rubble. The journalist also mentioned that the victims came from the Abu Daf and Tafesh families.

A dashcam video posted by Mazen Harazeen on Facebook showed the route as a driver, possibly an ambulance driver, made their way through rubble-lined streets to the scene of the alleged Tafesh family home bombing.

Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.