On the morning of Sunday, October 29th, 2023, a young Palestinian woman along with her two small children was reportedly killed, and at least two children and an elderly man were injured, as a result of an alleged Israeli airstrike on a the Al-Maghari family home located next to Al-Shaer Mall in the Al-Geneina neighbourhood in central Rafah, Gaza Strip.

Many local sources including the Palestinian news agency, Safa, journalist Ahmed Qadeeh’s post and Siham-Haifa Daoud’s Facebook post stated that a woman and her two children had been killed as a result of the bombing.

Ahmed Asfan post and Official journalist Adel Zourub post identified those killed as 20-year-old Shahed Jihad Ahmed Al-Maghari, her one-year-old son Jamal Muhammad Jamal Al-Maghari and her three-year-old daughter Sarah Muhammad Jamal Al-Maghari.

Siham-Haifa Daoud also reported that one child survived. Nayef Abdullah Al-Janahi’s and Zainab Fahim’s posts included a video showing a seemlingly uninjured infant, crying on a hospital bed before being picked up and comforted by a nurse. Both posts reported that the child survived the strike on the Maghari home and that his family were all killed in the incident.

“For you, Gaza” Facebook account’s post stated that were injuries after the bombing and included images of two children and an elderly man being treated in hospital.

Ahmed Aslan’s Facebook post included images of those killed in white shrouds with their names written on them. This post also included photos of the severely destroyed building, the whole front of the builiding missing, and a damaged car nearby.

Where possible, names have been reconciled with published Palestinian Ministry of Health lists. With thanks to journalist Alexandre Horn from CheckNews for identifying relevant sources, and Data Tech for Palestine for centralising the datasets.

When sources identified a belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to Israeli forces.