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(Previous Incident Code: ISPT111)
One civilian was seriously injured, and there was a report of additional injuries, following an alleged Israeli airstrike on a vehicle west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, on May 18th 2021, according to local reports.
The Palestinian Information Centre said that at 08:38 one person was seriously injured when an aircraft hit a “tuk tuk” (a three-wheeled motorized vehicle), in an agricultural area west of the Nuseirat refugee camp. One source, a Twitter account belong to Amjad Ahmed, stated that more than one person had been injured in the attack.
A tweet from @Ehabhelou identified “two raids” as being carried out and the majority of sources attributed these raids to Israel.
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Reports of the incident mention agricultural land being struck in the vicinity of Nuseirat Camp (مخيم النصيرات), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.460000, 34.380000. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.