Satellite imagery, screenshot from Google Earth, October 2023
Shortly before 8:56 AM on Friday, October 13th 2023, three houses, among them a house of the Al-Khayyat family, located in the Al Geneina neighborhood of Rafah, Gaza Strip, were destroyed in an alleged Israeli airstrike, killing at least 16 civilians, including four women, eight children, and an infant boy, and injuring a number of
Shortly before 7:43 AM on Monday, December 11th 2023, a series of alleged Israeli airstrikes hit six homes belonging to the extended Salem family in Sheikh Radwan, killing at least 102 civilians. Airwars was able to identify 104 named victims (102 fatalities, and two others injured), though some local reports put the death toll at
In the early hours of Wednesday, October 25th 2023, 35-year-old journalist of Al-Aqsa TV Ahmed Abdul Hay Abdullah Abu Mahadi was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike while he was in his home in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip. Ahmed Abu Mahadi worked for Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV and was the fifth journalist
On October 30th 2023, at least five men were killed and at least 15 others were injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on a motorcycle and a car on al-Madrasa Street near al-Yazouri Pharmacy in the al-Amal neighborhood of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. The civilian or militant status of all five men was
On the afternoon of Monday, October 30, 2023, at least 21 identified civilians, including seven women and eight named children, were killed and dozens, among them many children, were injured in three alleged Israeli airstrikes on the homes of the Tamraz and Jouda families and on the Tal al-Qamar wedding hall housing displaced persons and
At around 10 PM on Sunday, October 29th, 2023, 19 members of the Mushtaha family, including six women, one of them pregnant, were killed and dozens were reportedly injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike hit their home on Lababidi Street in Gaza City. The incident was reported by the Palestinian Information Centre on its official
On Wednesday, November 1st 2023, between seven and 12 civilians were killed, including at least two women, as a result of two separate alleged Israeli airstrikes on the homes of the Abu Nasr and Abu Odeh families in the Khan Younis refugee camp, located in the southern Gaza Strip. At least 16 others were reported
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 […]
On June 21, 2024, Safa correspondents reported that an alleged Israeli artillery attack in the al Shakoush area of Mawasi, northwest of the Rafah Governorate, resulted in the deaths and injuries of several people, primarily displaced civilians. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces bombarded the area with tanks. Mustafa Younes reported in a post on Facebook
During the evening of August 3, 2024, the Hamama School in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City was allegedly hit for a second time by Israeli planes while rescue efforts were underway after at least 16 civilians were killed in an initial bombardment on what Israeli forces claimed was a Hamas ‘command and control
Shortly before 20:34 on the evening of the 15th of July 2024, an alleged Israeli artillery attack reportedly killed two civilians, Dr. Anwar Shahada Nassar, a lecturer at the Al-Quds Open University and former director of the House of the Holy Quran and Sunnah, and his son, Ahmed Anwar Nassar, an engineer, on Al-Mufti street, north of
On November 6, 2023, injuries were reported as a result of shelling in al-Wusta near the al-Louh family home in the central Gaza Strip. At 8:52 pm on November 6, the Palestinian Press Agency (Safa.ps) reported that “injuries from the al-Louh family arrived after the walls of their house fell on them as a result
Around midday on Friday, November 3rd, 2023, an alleged shelling from Israeli tanks and/or naval boats hit displaced families on the Al-Rashid Al Bahri coastal road in the Gaza Strip. This shelling, occurring amid attempts by civilians to flee to the southern regions of Gaza from the north, resulted in the deaths of at least
On the 14th of September 2024, at dawn, several civilians were reportedly injured and at least three were killed following an alleged Israeli airstrike at Al Aliaa kindergarten on Al-Yafawiya street in the Al Trans area, located in Block 6 of the Jabalia refugee camp, in North Gaza, the Gaza Strip. That same day, multiple
On October 3, 2024, at least three civilians were reported injured by alleged Israeli artillery shelling of a school sheltering displaced people in the Maghazi Refugee Camp, Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip. At 9:23 local time, @Sa7atPlBreaking reported “three injuries in artillery shelling targeting a school sheltering displaced people east of Al Maghazi in the
On Saturday, November 4, 2023, Israeli forces allegedly bombed the gate of Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital west of Gaza killing at least four civilians and injuring others. Initial reports tallied the dead at two, however, following the incident, the names of those killed were published on social media. Airwars researchers identified 45-year-old Mohammed Jabr Muqbil as
On Sunday evening, December 15, 2024, 16 identified civilians, including at least seven children and two women, were killed in to a declared Israeli airstrike on the third floor of the Ahmad Bin Abdul Aziz School (Sheikh Jamil School), a UNRWA facility housing displaced people west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. The strike was
One to two civilians were reported killed and three others were injured, including two children, on July 4th 2022, when Turkish or Israeli shelling targeted the village of Al-Hoshan in the countryside of Ain Issa, Syria. The majority of the sources blamed Turkey for the attack but Sout Al Hayat reported that it was as
On October 9th, five Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedics sustained minor injuries after an alleged Israeli strike hit close to PRCS ambulances in Abasan, Khan Younis. PRCS reported that the paramedics were harmed by Israeli bombing while they were working to treat injured civilians following former strikes on two civilian homes, after PRCS received
Journalist Salam Khalil Mayma/Mima (33 years old), along with her husband Muhammad al-Masry, their two sons Hadi al-Masry (7 years old) and Ali al-Masry (five years old), and their daughter Sham al-Masry (2 years old) were reportedly killed on October 10th 2023 in an alleged Israeli airstrike on their home in Al Na’ja, situated in
On October 11th 2023, an alleged airstrike/artillery strike by the Israeli military on the Fojo family house located in the Al-Shouka area, east of Rafah city in the Gaza Strip reportedly killed at least one civilian, 21-year old Osama Hani Youssef Fojo. Human rights organisation Al Mezan noted that the Fojo family house was one
During the evening of Wednesday, October 11, 2023, eight civilians belonging to two different families, including six children and one woman, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Zanoun and al-Ajez family houses located in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. A Watan correspondent reported that three residential apartments in
On October 14th 2023, between one and three civilians were reportedly killed and at least one was injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al Shaf’i family house in Al Nusayrat camp. There is mixed reporting on the number of civilians killed in the airstrike, with Wattan News providing the lowest death toll of
On the evening of Saturday, October 14th 2023, at least 16 civilians, almost all women and children, were killed and others were injured by an alleged Israeli airstrike on the al-Houssana family house in al-Zuwaiyda, in the central Gaza Strip. According to several posts on Facebook by family members, the following names of the victims
During the morning of Tuesday, the 17th October 2023, the Israeli Defense Forces allegedly bombed the three-storey residential building belonging to the Abu Salima family, located on First Street in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah in the Gaza strip. The strike is reported to have killed at least nine family members,
Around 5pm on Friday October 20th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Aqad family house located near the European Hospital in the Al-Manara neighborhood south to the town of Khan Yunis killed a Palestinian poet and novelist Heba (Hiba) Kamal Saleh Abu Nada alongside her son and ten identified members of the Al-Aqad family,
In the evening of Wednesday, October 18th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on a yard outside the Ahmed Abdul Aziz School funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and located in the al-Hawoz area of the Khan Younis Camp, near the Nasser Hospital, killed at least five civilians, including
On October 20th 2023, 17 civilians – including five women and four children – of the ‘Abu Shuaib’ family were killed and several others were injured after an alleged Israeli airstrike on their residential home in the Deir Al Balah neighbourhood, Gaza. The Ministry of the Interior in Gaza identified the ‘Abu Shuaib’ residence as
On October 18th 2023, between five and seven members of the al-Halaw family, including at least three children and at least one woman were killed, and a large number of civilians were injured in an alleged airstrike by the Israeli military on the al-Halaw home, on Street 8 in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood near the
On Saturday, October 21st, 2023, a number of civilians were reportedly injured when the Al Khadura family house in Al-Maghazi camp, Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli aircraft. Sources including @YouthGoDigital tweeted about the bombing, and Facebook posts by AlMaghazi2 and Media Platform Mahmoud Abu Zinadah stated that there were several casualties, but