Shortly before 6:33 PM on Monday, 29th October 2023, at least nine identified civilians, including at least three women and four children, were reportedly killed and a number of civilians were injured when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit the home of the Ghanem family in Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Shehab News Agency was one of multiple sources reporting that at least 10 people were killed in the alleged Israeli attack. Shehab News Agency and other sources also reported that a number of people were injured, and Twitter/X user @ehabomar21 wrote that homes around the Ghanem family home were severely damaged.
Social media testimonies by family and friends helped to ascertain the names of some victims of the deadly attack. 71-year-old Khaled Mustafa Muhammad Ghanem (Abu Muhammad) and his 60-year-old wife Hanaa Muhammad Ali Ghanem (Umm Muhammad) were killed alongside their 19-year-old son Ahmed Khaled Ghanem and their daughter Khoulod Khaled Ziadeh Ghanem. Khoulod’s son Muhammad Khaled Ghanem and her daughter Lynn Khaled Ghanem were injured.
The attack also took the lives of three children. Two-year-old Muhammad’s daughter, Dima Muhammad Ghanem was also killed, as well as the two children of Khoulod, 18-year-old daughter Mennat Allah Khaled Shaaban Ziadeh and one-and-half-year-old son Shabaan Khaled Shaaban Ziadeh. Also, a child Musab was mentioned among the victims killed, according to the post by Em Nezam Aljamal. The final named victim of the alleged attack was Diaa Ali Ghanem.
A Facebook post from Saad Ziada, a brother of Khaled, Kholoud’s husband, gave more information on the family in his testimony. According to Saad Ziada’s post, Shaaban Khaled Ziadeh was only one-and-a-half years old, while his elder sister Mennat Ziadeh was in her first year of university. He attached an image of a young woman in a university uniform, presumably Mennat, and one of a small child.
Where possible, names have been matched with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of fatalities in Gaza released on October 26th, 2023.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.