On November 2nd 2023, two children were killed in an alleged airstrike on the UNRWA-affiliated Abu Hamisa School in Al Bureij Camp, North Gaza.

The deceased were identified as 16-year-old Fathi Muhammad Omar al-Jarisi and Yaffa Basel al-Shimaly.

Fathi’s death was announced by Khamis Hussein, an employee of the Palestine Benevolent Obliterated Association, on Facebook. Hussein wrote that the “beloved young man” was “killed by shrapnel from missiles in the bombing of the camp.” According to Hussein, Fathi “bled while he was in the shelter center at Abu Hamisa school.”

Many shared their prayers and condolences for Fathi’s death on social media, including Basel Abu Shouka of the Abu Shouka Youth Association, who acknowledged the Al-Jarisi family and the loss of their “dear son.” Abu Shouka shared a selfie of Fathi standing next to the sea.

Fathi’s brother, Fawzi and sister, Elham, shared prayers for their brother on Facebook. Another family member, Majeed Al-Jarisi, based in Iraq, wrote that he mourned for Fathi as they were “bound by blood and lineage.”

Yaffa was remembered in a Facebook post by Dahman Eyad, a journalist, who posted several photos of the young boy in a shroud, laid on a stretcher. “A child was killed on the door of (Abu Hamisa) UNRWA school,” he wrote.

The strike status of this incident is currently a single source claim because only one source has attributed the incident to a missile strike on the school, and the only attribution to a belligerent is through the Ministry of Health fatalities list, who attribute cause of deaths to the Israeli military.

Fathi was matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released July 24th 2024.