In the morning on November 2nd, 2023, an alleged Israeli bombing hit civilian homes on al-Nasr Street, west of Gaza City. At least one civilian was killed and at least four civilians, two women and two children, were injured.
According to a Facebook post shared by Flora Naaman Ibrahim al-Masri, ambulance crews were unable to “recover” an individual whose body was found lying on the ground at the Bahloul intersection.
In a Twitter/X post, @waseem_shbak, @mo2re5, and others shared the image of an individual, likely a young man, being transported by a horse-drawn cart, west of Gaza City, near the Bank of Palestine at the Bahloul intersection on Al-Nasr Street. According to the post shared by @mo2re5, the individual pictured was killed, and his name is unknown.
While it is clear that the posts shared by @waseem_shbak, @mo2re5, and others on Twitter/X refer to the same victim as they shared the same image, Airwars is unable to determine whether the post shared by Flora al-Masri refers to a different victim, or the same individual. Due to this uncertainty, Airwars has recorded the number of civilians killed with an upper range of two and a lower estimate of one. Airwars will update this assessment should more information become available.
Many media outlets, such as the Palestinian News Agency, Shehab, and Aljazeera have shared images of evacuation efforts and medical crew services transporting the injured, including two women and two children with visible injuries.
In addition to tweeting photos of the bombing and evacuation efforts, @Rassd_Oman reported that most of the injured were children.
Posting to Facebook, Aljazeera shared a video reportedly depicting the site of the bombing. In doing so, it identified the location of the strike as “adjacent to Al-Sharq Bakery” on al-Nasr Street. The video itself shows what appears to be a four to five story residential building situated in front of a large pile of rubble. The building looks to be almost entirely blown out, with no doors or windows remaining, and clear lines of vision between blown out windows on opposite sides of the building. In the video, shot both at eye-level and from a higher vantage, rescue crews hold hoses over the smoking rubble, appearing to try to put out any fire.
According to Imane Ziane’s Twitter/X post, the bombing happened “in the morning.” The precise local time of the incident however is unknown.
Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the bombing to Israeli forces.