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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0296

Location

Al Maghazi camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مخيم المغازي
​​On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, six civilians, including a baby, were reportedly injured and two were killed as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in Al-Nada Building in Al-Maghazi Camp, in the central Gaza strip. Local sources, including Palestine News, reported that there were a number of people killed and…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332g

Location

Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
قِطَاعُ غَزَّةَ
On Tuesday, October 17th 2023, at least one young male civilian was reportedly killed, but the precise details of the incident, including location and time, are not yet known. The victim was identified by friends and family on social media as a 22-year old man named Youssef Naji Fares al-Hayek. Family member Haya Bashar wrote…

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Published
1 April 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0300

Location

Vicinity of Burqa Stadium, Rafah, Palestinian territories
محيط ملعب برقة
On October 17th 2023, 12 civilians from the same family, including five women and three children, were reportedly killed and an unknown number of others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Al-Khawaja family home located in Al-Shaboura refugee camp in central Rafah near Burqa Stadium. Safa News reported that "more than 10…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0301

Location

Vicinity of Lailat al Omar Hall, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
جوار قاعة ليلة العمر
On Tuesday, 17th October, 2023, an alleged Israeli bombing hit the Al-Qahwaji family house located east of the Lailat Al-Omar hall in the Abu Shahla neighborhood area in Bani Suhaila, east of the town of Khan Yunis, reportedly injuring four civilians. The attack completely destroyed the house belonging to Mahmoud Kamel Al-Qahwaji. A number of…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0286

Location

Batn al Sameen, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
بطن السمين
At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a five-storey residential building, where at least nine families reportedly lived. At least seven members of the Zorob family along with at least 18 other civilians were killed, while at least four civilians were injured - including children. The house was said to…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0290

Location

Vicinity of al Kuwaiti Hospital, Rafah, Palestinian territories
جوار مستشفى الكويتي
On Tuesday morning, October 17 2023, between 12 and 28 civilians were reported killed, including at least 2 children, and others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a five-storey house behind the al-Kuwaiti hospital in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza. While one source on social media claimed that there were 12 killed…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0302

Location

Vicinity of Kuwaiti Hospital, Rafah, Palestinian territories
محيط المستشفى الكويتي
At dawn on Tuesday, October 17th 2023, between 17 and 26 civilians were reported killed, including at least seven women and five children, one of whom was an infant. Dozens of others, including children, were also reported wounded in the alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Abu Lebda family near the Kuwaiti Hospital…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0289

Location

Vicinity of Ali mosque, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
مسجد علي بن أبي طالب, رفح
At the dawn of Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a residential building located on Jame’ Ali Street north of Ali Mosque in the Al Shaout  (Al-Shawut) neighborhood in the western part of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, reportedly killing a brother-in-law of the Palestinian journalist Hatem Omar, his wife…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332a

Location

Khan Younis, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
خان يونس
Four members of the al-Masry family were reportedly killed and three others were injured by an alleged Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis during the dawn hours of the 17th of October, 2023. The killed and injured civilians came from three generations of the al-Masry family. 5-year-old Amir Hammam Salem Samara al-Masry, his mother, 30-year-old Asmaa…

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Published
1 April 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT171025c

Location

Morag, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
موراغ
On October 17, 2025, at least three civilians were reportedly injured by alleged Israeli gunfire in the motorcycle market area of Morag, located south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. According to multiple local news agencies and social media reports, including @ShehabAgency, @PalinfoAr, and @AlQastalps, Israeli forces opened fire in the area surrounding…

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Published
23 December 2025
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0291

Location

Al Tanour area, Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
حي التنور، رفح
On October 17th 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the al-Jazzar family house in the Al Tanour area, in east Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, killing up to 12 people, including 11 members of the al-Jazzar family, and injuring 12 others, including three children. 63 year old Zaki Mahmoud al-Jazzar was killed along with…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0303

Location

Khan Younis camp, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
مخيم خانيونس
During the night of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, at least 21 civilians were killed and a number of others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the al-Jabri family in the Emirat neighborhood, Khan Yunis camp. CNN News and Safa quoted the Ministry of Interior in Gaza, which said that the…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0312

Location

Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
رفح
On 17th October, 2023, an alleged Israeli strike reportedly hit the Abdel-Al family home on George Street in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, killing 28 year old Nour El-Din Mahmoud Abdel-Al and injuring others. A Facebook post by journalist Adel Zourob reported that a deceased person had arrived at the hospital…

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Published
1 March 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332b

Location

Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
On October 17th, 2023, Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Balbisi (25) was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip. The Martyrs of Gaza Twitter/X account posted a tribute by Muhammad's friend Hamoud Abbadi, quoting him as saying, "Who said that parting does not change the features? We were always together... in everything, laughing, going out,…

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Published
1 April 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0278

Location

al Ahli Arab Hospital, Gaza, Palestinian territories
المستشفى الاهلي العربي
In perhaps the most well-known, and hotly debated, incident from the war in Gaza, civilians were killed while sheltering at the Al Ahli hospital on October 17th 2023. The incident was widely-reported, with a fierce dispute as to whether the civilian casualties were caused by a Palestinian militant rocket fired at Israel that fell short…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0293

Location

Sheikh Radwan, Gaza, Palestinian territories
الشيخ رضوان
On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Haniyeh family house located in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City resulted in the death of at least 14 members of the Haniyeh family, while a large number of family members sustained moderate injuries, according to Gaza Now Facebook post. Many of those…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0332d

Location

Bureji camp, Deir al-Balah, Palestinian territories
مخيم بوريجي
On October 17, 2023, six-year-old Aya (Ayat) Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun and her five-year-old brother Abdullah Muhammad Awni Abu Aoun died in an alleged Israeli airstrike that impacted their home in the Gaza Strip. Though sources did not include a specific location for the strike, Facebook user Al-Bureij Gathering remembered the children as “beautiful martyrs of…

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Published
29 March 2025
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

TS649

Location

Kalotah village, Shirawa district, Afrin countryside, Aleppo, Syria
قرية كالوته
During the night of Monday, October 16, 2023, a child, Muhammad Qushu Ali, was injured by alleged Turkish and Sham Legion military artillery shells in the village of Kalotah, in the Afrin countryside of northern Syria. Muhammad Qushu Ali’s age remains unclear: according to the Afrin post, the child was 3 years old. However, Efrin…

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Published
16 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0294

Location

Al Barid Road, Khan Younis, Palestinian territories
طريق البريد
On October 17, 2023, at least 10 people, members of the Barbakh family, were killed and at least five others were wounded during an alleged Israeli airstrike at the Barbakh family home on Al Barid road, central Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The attack, which struck the property located opposite the post office in central…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0295

Location

Tal Al Sultan, Western Rafah, Rafah, Palestinian territories
تل السلطان غرب رفح
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,…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0297

Location

Al Maghazi Preparatory School for Boys, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مدرسة المغازي الاعدادية للبنين
During the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th of October, 2023, at least ten civilians were killed and dozens were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on an UNRWA school located in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip where 4,000 people were taking refuge. However, the death toll may be significantly higher as Twitter/X…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0280

Location

Bureij camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مخيم البريج
At least 92 civilians, including 40 children and 28 women, were killed and at least 13 others were injured by a declared Israeli airstrike on the Bureij camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. The strike targeted and killed Ayman Nofal, a security and intelligence leader in Hamas also…

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Published
27 August 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0298

Location

Vicinity of Al-Geneina neighbourhood, Rafah City, Rafah, Palestinian territories
بالقرب من حي الجنينة، رفح
During the afternoon of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, 20 members of the Abu al-Naja family, including at least eight women, two of whom were pregnant, and at least eight children and four men were reportedly killed and dozens reportedly injured when Israeli aircrafts allegedly struck the homes of the Abu al-Naja and Madhi families located…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

RS4848

Location

the “‘Al-Qaswa”’ IDP camp in the vicinity of Sheikh Yousef area, Idlib, Idlib, Syria
محيط بلدة الشيخ يوسف
In the early morning and in the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th October 2023, ten airstrikes allegedly perpetrated by Russian forces on the “Al-Qaswa” IDP camp and civilian homes in the outskirts of the town of Sheikh Youssef in the western countryside of Idlib, Syria, injured four civilians, including two women and two girls. The Syrian…

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Published
17 October 2023
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0281

Location

Vicinity of Salah al Din al Ayyubi Mosque, Gaza, Palestinian territories
مسجد صلاح الدين الأيوبي
A large number of people were killed and wounded when three houses collapsed, including the Arhim family home, north of the Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, after reportedly being hit by a bomb from an Israeli military aircraft on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Many of the victims who…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0299

Location

Deir al Balah, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
دير البلح
On the morning of Tuesday, October 17th 2023, an Israeli airstrike allegedly hit a residential building belonging to Abu issa family in Deir al-Balah, a town in the Central Gaza Strip around 14 kilometers south of Gaza City. Local media sources reported that a number of civilians were killed and injured, citing the Ministry of…

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Published
1 February 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0311

Location

Hawass family house, Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories
منزل لعائلة حواس
On 17th October 2023, an alleged airstrike hit the house of the Hawass family, in the Gaza Strip, resulting in an unknown number of injuries. All sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces. Numerous Twitter/X accounts posted images showing Civil Defense and medical services rescuing and attending to those injured in the strike on the Hawass…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17–18 October, 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0345

Location

Vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque, Nuseirat refugee camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مسجد شهداء الأقصى، مخيم النصيرات
At least two people were killed and many more, including women and children, were reportedly injured on October 17th or 18th 2023, when the Al Aqsa Martyrs Mosque near the Ain Jalut towers in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli military aircraft. Al Quds News Agency reported…

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Published
1 April 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

ISPT0279

Location

Bureij camp, Deir Al Balah, Palestinian territories
مخيم البريج
On October 17th 2023, an unknown number of casualties were reported in a possible strike on the family home of Lal Al-Salhi in Block 2 of the Al-Bureij camp in Gaza. While numerous sources reported the strike on the Al-Salhi home, few details are available regarding the number of those injured or killed. No names…

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Published
1 January 2024
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Incident Date

17 October 2023

Incident Code

TI099

Location

Kani Kindi village, Koya District, Kurdistan, Iraq
قرية كاني كندي
On Tuesday, October 17th, 2023, one man was killed and up to three other civilians, women, were injured after an alleged Turkish drone strike on a car in the Kani Kindi village in the Koya district of Kurdistan, Iraq. The car was reported to have belonged to citizens of the Makhmour refugee camp; the driver…

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Published
17 October 2023
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