On Sunday, October 22nd 2023, the home of the Abu Al-Omrain family in Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, northern Gaza Strip, was allegedly bombed by an Israeli military aircraft, resulting in eleven civilian deaths and other injuries.
Rabab Abu Hatab, in a post on Facebook, reported that the bombing destroyed not only the Abu Al-Omrain family home but an entire residential square consisting of the four surrounding homes. Alaa Abu Anas also reported, in a post on Facebook, that the Saad family home had collapsed following the bombing of the Abu Al-Omrain family home.
Abu Fadi, a grandson of the oldest victim, reported that the Abu Al-Omrain family home was six storeys tall and that dead and injured victims were being pulled from the rubble.
76-year-old Muhammad Abu Al-Omrain (also known as Abu Nabil) was killed along with his sons Hilal Muhammad Abu Al-Omrain, Bilal Muhammad Abu-Omrain, and 13-year-old Musaab Muhammad Abu Al-Omrain. Hilal’s wife Mariam was also killed along with their two-year-old son Zaid Hilal Abu-Omrain and daughter Zena Hilal Abu Al-Omrain. The wife of Bilal, Nahed and their two sons three-year-old Mohammed Bilal Al-Amrain and Khaled Bilal Al-Omrain, an infant, were also killed. Muhammad’s 26-year-old grandson Yahya Hammam Muhammad Abu Al-Omrain son of late Hammam Muhammad Abu Al-Omrain was also among those killed.
Close family members made tributes and expressed their grief. A family member named Sameh Odeh expressed their condolences and shared an image of Mohammad and Khaled, lying side-by-side, from before the incident.
Umm Anas Abuthria shared an image of the elderly Muhammed Abu Al-Omrain from before the incident and offered her condolences to a surviving family member named Saja Muhammed. Another Facebook post, by Islam El Helou, showed two images of 26-year-old Yahya.
Omar Qaddoura posted three videos on Facebook showing the destruction of the incident, including a video from a tall building showing an enormous crater where a neighbouring building had been. Another video showed the destruction from street level, while a digger cleared rubble off of the street.
Where possible, Airwars has matched names with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers released on October 26th.
Where the sources identified the belligerent, sources attributed the strikes to Israeli forces.