At around 9:40pm on Wednesday, October 25th 2023, the Eid family’s house, located west of Camp 2 opposite the Maghazi entrance in the Al-Zuwaida area of the Nuseirat Camp, Central Gaza, was bombed in an alleged Israeli military airstrike. According to initial accounts, Israeli military aircraft bombed the house shortly after the end of evening prayers, resulting in fatalities and dozens of injuries according to Wafa News agency.
Airwars identified the names of nineteen civilian members of the Eid family, forming six family units, who were killed in the incident. A twentieth member was also killed and has been identified as a militant.
Among the victims were Umm Ismail Eid, the family’s grandmother, along with her 33-year-old son Mustafa Jamil Ismail Eid (a militant), 30-year-old daughter-in-law Safa Mahmoud Mohammed el-Shorbagy, and her three young grandchildren, a five-year-old girl named Fella Mustafa Jamil Eid, and her two brothers, nine-year-old Ismail Mustafa Jamil Eid, and two-year-old Karam Mustafa Jamil Eid.
When Airwars first published this incident on October 25, 2023, no open sources were found to suggest that Mustafa Jamil Ismail Eid was a militant. As such, Mustafa Jamil Ismail Eid was recorded as a civilian. This was in line with Airwars’ methodology which is employed across all conflicts we document, and informed by international standards regarding the ‘presumption of civilian status‘. Specifically, as outlined by the International Committee of the Red Cross, civilian status is assumed until evidence is identified to the contrary.
On June 22, 2026, a Telegram account affiliated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)’s armed wing, published a tribute to Mustafa Jamil Ismail Eid, identifying him as a fighter. As such, Airwars updated Mustafa Jamil Ismail Eid’s status from civilian to militant, and changed the minimum number of civilians reportedly killed in this incident from 20 to 19.
One-year-old Jamil Ali Jamil Eid and his brother Muhannad Ali Jamil Eid, along with their mother, were also among those killed. Additionally, father and son, 36-year-old Muhammad Ramadan Younis Eid and two-year-old Waseem Muhammad Ramadan Eid were killed in the incident.
38-year-old Saeed Ramadan Younis Eid, described as “one of the best mathematics teachers” at Shuhada al-Maghazi Secondary School for Boys, was another victim who was killed along with his wife, Hadeel Musa Abdel Jawad Eid, and their 10-year-old daughter, Dana Saeed Ramadan Eid.
Sharing the names of those killed in the bombing, Younis Zuhair mourned the loss of his “caring uncle and second father” 49-year-old Wissam Mousa Shehada Eid, his aunt 46-year-old Taghreed Ramadan Eid, and his “kind and affectionate” cousin, 21-year-old Ahmed Wissam Mousa Eid.
In a Facebook post, Al-Zawaida Youth Sports Club expressed deep sorrow shared by the club’s management, technical staff, players, and fans over the death of the former club player and engineer, 43-year-old Rushdi Ramadan Younis Eid. The club posted an image of Rushdi on the football pitch holding up a large trophy.
Rushdi died alongside his pregnant wife, Rima Fayek Qasim Eid, and their 11-year-old son, Muhammad Rushdi Ramadan Eid. Family and friends shared memories and pictures of “the literary, respectable” Rushdi. Others remembered how his wife was “intelligent, active, beloved, elegant” and a colleague named Ghada Awad described her in a post on Facebook as a “kind and generous” teacher at al-Maghazi Girls Preparatory School. Ghada posted an image of Rima posing in front of a banner for the October 2022 celebration of World Teachers’ Day. Like Saeed Ramadan Eid, she was a mathematics teacher.
Many friends and family members posted heartfelt tributes to the Eid family on Facebook, posting images of them from before the incident.
A man named Rashad was described as the only surviving brother of the siblings Rushdi, Taghreed, Said and Mohammed, in a Facebook post by a family member named Ibrahim. Another Facebook user named Mousa, in a tribute post to the Eid family, wished a speedy recovery to his cousin Ghadeer and her sister Lina, who it seems were injured in the incident.
There was allegedly no warning prior to the attack, as noted by Hassan A. Jawad, in a post on Facebook the following day.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.
All identified victims’ names, except for Umm Ismail, Hadeel, Muhaned and Rima, have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims’ names and ID numbers released on October 26th.
Rima Fayek Qasim Eid may be 37-year-old Reema Fayek Hamdan Eid (MoH ID 801118514). Hadeel Musa Abdel Jawad Eid may be 35-year-old Hadeel Moussa Hassan Eid (MoH ID 801848599).