Civilian Casualties

Civilian Casualties

Incident Code

ISPT0838a

Incident date

November 2, 2023

Location

الزوايدة, Al Zawaida, Deir Al Balah, the Gaza Strip

Geolocation

31.429871, 34.370784 Note: The accuracy of this location is to Town level. Continue to map

Airwars assessment

On November 2, 2023, a number of people were killed and injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Al Zawaida in the Deir Al Balah region of the Gaza Strip.

The day of the alleged strike, Facebook user Eh S Mahmoud reported that “a house in al-Zawaida was […] targeted.” A tweet by @moi_syria1 corroborated this, quoting “Palestinian media [as reporting] martyrs and wounded as a result of Israeli [military] aircraft bombing a house in the al-Zawaida area.”

There were no publicly available details of the names of the victims.

Twitter/X users @AbdelIdriso and @Fatim_ali99 similarly tweeted that “[Israeli military] aircraft bombed a family in al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip while they were preparing bread” and shared a video showing a woman with visible head injuries describing the incident. A shrouded body and an injured man are visible in the background of the clip. Another video shared by @ShehabAgency, Gaza Now and others shows an injured child crying in a hospital as he “searches for his mother after the family was bombed west of Al Zawaida.” He is joined by two other injured children, though it is not clear if they were injured in the same incident.

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

The local time of the incident is unknown.

Geolocation notes

Reports of the incident mention the town of Al Zawaida (الزوايدة), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.429871, 34.370784. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike
  • Infrastructure
    Residential
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    2
  • Civilians reported injured
    3
  • Cause of injury / death
    Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Fair
    Reported by two or more credible sources, with likely or confirmed near actions by a belligerent.
  • Suspected belligerent
    Israeli Military

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Israeli Military Assessment:

  • Suspected belligerent
    Israeli Military
  • Israeli Military position on incident
    Not yet assessed

Summary

  • Strike status
    Likely strike
  • Strike type
    Airstrike
  • Infrastructure
    Residential
  • Civilian harm reported
    Yes
  • Civilians reported killed
    2
  • Civilians reported injured
    3
  • Cause of injury / death
    Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
  • Airwars civilian harm grading
    Fair
    Reported by two or more credible sources, with likely or confirmed near actions by a belligerent.
  • Suspected belligerent
    Israeli Military

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