On Sunday, October 29, 2023, six members of the Abu Saada family, including at least one woman and two children, were killed and at least two civilians, a mother and her child, were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on their home in the Gaza Strip. The exact location of the strike is unknown.

52-year-old Raeda Abdel Hamid Abu Saada was killed along with two of her sons, 35-year-old Saud Akram Abu Saada and 35-year-old Haitham Akram Abu Saada. Haitham’s son, 12-year-old Akram Haitham Akram Abu Saada, and daughter Tala Haitham Akram Abu Saada were also killed, as was 10-year-old Ahmed Saud Saeed Abu Saada. Saud’s wife, Noor Fuad, and their three-year old son managed to escape from the rubble with minor injuries.

In a December 22, 2023 interview with @GazaMartyrs, Noor Fuad, the surviving wife of Saud Akram Abu Saada, described how on October 29 “their home in Gaza was bombed by Israeli warplanes, and as the rubble fell upon them…[she] carried their son under the debris, desperately calling out for Saud, but there was no response.”

Noor also said the couple was living happily with their three-year-old son. @GazaMartyrs also shared an image of the happy Abu Saada family that it used to be.

Immediately after the alleged strike, loved ones expressed their grief over the deaths online. On October 29, Facebook users Ibrahim Abu Sada and Muhammad Abu Saada posted announced the death of their relatives. The latter also shared photos of some of the men who were killed.

On November 3, Nofa Abusada grieved “My strong, patient, chaste, pious, compassionate, martyr mother (Raida Abdel Hamid Abu Saada), my eldest brother, the martyr (Haitham Akram Abu Saada), my beloved brother, the martyr (Saud Akram Abu Saada), my nephew, the martyr (Akram Haitham Akram Abu Saada), my neice, the martyr (Tala Haitham Akram Abu Saada), my nephew, the martyr (Ahmed Saud Saeed Abu Saada).”

Where possible, names have been reconciled with published Palestinian Ministry of Health lists. With thanks to journalist Alexandre Horn from CheckNews for identifying relevant sources, and Data Tech for Palestine for centralising the datasets.

One source, Twitter/X account “Martyrs of Gaza” identified the belligerent as Israeli military. Furthermore, most of the names of the victims have been matched to the Palestinian Ministry of health lists, which is described as a list of “victims of Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip.” Therefore, Airwars has graded the strike status as “likely strike”.

The local time of the incident is unknown.