Geolocation
Airwars assessment
According to local reports, an elderly woman died after sustaining a head injury while running to a protected area in the town of Shtulim near Ashdod, Israel during a reported Hamas rocket attack on May 13th 2021.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs named the woman as 84-year-old Miriam Arie. Reporting of Mrs. Arie’s age varies across other sources.
The Israeli media outlet, Kan Darom, said residents were made aware of an impending strike when an alarm sounded in the town of Shtulim at 22:38, part of the Beer Tuvia Regional Council. Aharon Zeno, a paramedic, told the outlet that members of the victim’s family said her death had been the result of a slip. One source, Kann News, reported that Mrs. Arie fell after colliding with a security guard.
Haaretz said that medics with the Hatzalah medical service tried to resuscitate her at the scene where she was reported to have died shortly after.
One source, @GeneralInspect2 on Twitter, reported that multiple people had been injured as a result of the incident, no further details were provided.
In 2016 Miriam Arie was interviewed by the website Ravdori. In the interview, she describes how she emigrated to Israel from Yemen in 1949 at the age of 13. She also described her family life, saying: “Today I am already a great grandmother, I have nine children, I had another child named Gabriel, he died of epilepsy. I have 26 great grandchildren and 9 grandchildren. I still live in Moshav Shtulim with two of my cousins and Ilan, and raise a large, high-quality farm of cows to produce milk.”
Two sources, Yousri Saied and Avi Mayer, described Hamas as being responsible for the strike.
Indirect harm incident only.
The incident occured at approximately 10:40 pm local time.
The victims were named as:
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Miriam Arieh pictured on the right with a family member (published by Ravdori in 2016, courtesy of family)
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Miriam Arieh is seen with her husband (published by Ravdori in 2016, courtesy of family)
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Miriam Arieh is seen with famiy members (published by Ravdori in 2016, courtesy of family)
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Miriam Arieh is seen with her grandchildren in an immigrant camp (published by Ravdori in 2016, courtesy of family)
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the village of Shtulim (שְׁתוּלִים), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.773639, 34.684618. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.