Geolocation
Airwars assessment
On October 31st, 2023, one civilian was killed and several wounded civilians were reported as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of Al-Aqsa Channel correspondent Muhammad Arab, who was not among those killed/injured, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Shehab News Agency posted on Twitter/X about the attack, reporting one death and injuries. A second source, Nabd News, also tweeted about the attack, attributing the strike to an Israeli aircraft bomb and informing that wounded civilians were taken to the Indonesian Hospital.
The Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr), Palestine Network for Dialogue شبكة فلسطين للحوار (@paldf), and Palestine Press Agency وكالة صفا (@SafaPs) also tweeted about the airstrike but provided no further details on the victims or the infrastructure damage. There was no further follow-up on the victims taken to the hospital.
Additionally, eight private Facebook users posted similar information on their accounts about the alleged strike.
The strike status has been graded as “single source claim” by Airwars due to the repetition of sources who mention Israel as being responsible for the strike, with the Civilian Harm Status as “fair” due to multiple different sources mentioning the civilian harm.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the province/governorate of North Gaza (محافظة شمال غزة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.544243, 34.510400. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.