Six civilians, including three children, from three generations of the same family, were killed when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in the al-Hawaber area of Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on either the 9th or 10th of October, 2023.

The first source to report on the event, a post uploaded on October 9th on the Nasr Family Facebook page, claimed that Nahida Ramadan Sardah was killed alongside her family that day. However Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), who named Nahida’s children, noted that the bombing took place on the morning of October 10th in their report. There may have been some delay in the accounts, given that the civilians could not initially be found in the rubble, with a family member, Ahmad Sardah, reporting that the victims were trapped under the rubble for 12 hours.

While DCIP reported that only four civilians were killed, including three children and that other children were injured in the alleged airstrike, family members identified the names of six victims killed. Yasir Serdah, a family member, reported that there were others wounded but did not say how many. Airwars recorded six civilians killed, and two to three civilians injured, including at least two children in the attack.

The six victims were identified by their relatives as the grandmother, 60-year-old Nahida Ramadan Sardah (al-Hassi), also referred to as Umm Musa, and her daughters-in-law, Rania Mohammed Hassan (Mousa al-Hassi’s wife) and Rima Nassar, as well as Rania‘s eleven-year-old daughter Nahida (Mousa Youssef) al-Hassi, her three-year-old son Karam (Mousa Youssef) al-Hassi and Rima‘s two-year-old son Mohammed.

The ages of the children were reported by DCIP.

Multiple sources claimed that the bombing took place without any warning.

Two sources identified a belligerent and attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.

Where possible, the names of the victims have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MoH) lists, which include national ID numbers. Since October 26, 2023, the MoH has released eight lists, along with an additional list of medical professionals, which was released on September 17, 2024. Airwars is matching individuals to the first list where their name appeared. In regard to this incident, names are matched to the first “Palestinian Ministry of Health List of Fatalities in Gaza”, which was released on October 26, 2023.