At 4:30 am on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, between 15 and 40 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike that hit the al-Lamdani family house in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
Facebook posts by family members reported the names of the civilians that were killed: Ibrahim al-Lamdani<\/strong>,\u00a0his wife<\/strong> and children<\/strong> who remain unnamed, his brother 54 year old Ahmed al-Lamdani<\/strong> and his unnamed wife<\/strong> and children<\/strong>, Ibrahim and Ahmed\u2019s sister Jamila al-Lamdani <\/strong>and her unnamed children <\/strong>were among those killed.\u00a0Ibrahim and Ahmed\u2019s nephew, 40 year old\u00a0Muhammad Ihsan al-Lamdani<\/strong>\u00a0and his wife Elham Hamdan al-Lamdani<\/strong>, were killed,\u00a0as were their children: 21 year old\u00a0Hossam Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong>, 20 year old Mahmoud Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong>, 14 year old\u00a0Youssef Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong>, 8 year old Islam Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong>, 17 year old Nagham Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong> and 11 year old Farah Muhammad al-Lamdani<\/strong>. In addition, 38 year old Sabreen al-Lamdani<\/strong>, Muhammad\u2019s sister, was also killed, along with her unnamed children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A tweet from @ShehabAgency put the number killed at \u201cmore than 40\u201d and added that many of those killed had fled to Khan Yunis after being displaced from their northern homes. The lowest death toll provided by local sources was 15 killed.<\/p>\n Photos of the shrapnel from the weapon that hit the house have circled social media, as have photos of injured people, the rubble, and victims in body bags. Family and friends have written messages on Facebook. Mosa, the brother of Elham, wrote \u201cWith hearts that believe in God\u2019s will and power, today my beloved sister, the martyr, bled (Elham Hamdan Abu Muammar). Her husband, the martyr (Muhammad Ihsan al-Lamdani), and their martyred sons\u201d. Mohammad wrote \u201cMay God have mercy on your soul, O Abu Hassam, a clean, respectable and decent man. I testify to your honesty and politeness. A thousand mercy and light descend on your grave, my dear. May God reward you, Khan Yunis. We belong to Allah and to Him we shall return.\u201d<\/p>\n 18 year-old Dima al-Lamdani<\/strong> lost most of her family, including her parents, seven siblings and four members of her uncle\u2019s family. Dima, who was trapped under rubble after the explosion (and is pictured with cuts on her face), described the horror of waiting to be found: \u201cThe time I spent waiting to be found were some of the most horrifying moments. I was about to lose my mind.\u201d She was luckily found alive in the rubble after waiting for help for several hours. In an interview with the Reuters she said \u201cThis is a nightmare. It will never be wiped from my memory,” she said. “I had a sister, 16. They wrote my name on the white sheet they wrapped her body in, they thought it was me.\u201d To the Guardian, she spoke of her disillusionment of a future without her family: \u201cI am crumbled now. No dreams, no hopes, no plans. I can\u2019t imagine my life without my mother, sister and father. The Israeli forces betrayed us. There is no place that is safe.\u201d Dima, her brother, and her two younger cousins were pulled from the rubble and were the only survivors from the family. This coincides with another source, Bashira Akkad, which also mentioned that “only 4 of them survived serious injuries”.<\/p>\n Where possible, Airwars has matched names with the Palestinian Ministry of Health list of nearly 7000 victims\u2019 names and ID numbers released on October 26th<\/p>\n The munition used has been classified on Airwars’ Open Source Munitions Portal cases OSMP505<\/a> and OSMP506.<\/a> Analysts classified this as likely a 2000lb bomb, with the tentative model a MK 84 based on munition remnants found after the strike and posted by @adham922<\/a>.<\/p>\n Where sources identified the belligerent, all sources attributed the strike to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","country":[767],"belligerent":[438],"strike_type":[431],"cause_of_death":[448],"targeted_belligerents":[],"strike_status":[832],"civilian_harm_reported":[834],"civilian_harm_status":[837],"belligerent_assessment":[],"geolocation_assessor":[911],"declassified_document":[900],"geolocation_status":[924],"observation":[985,1015],"munition":[],"casualty":[959,957,958],"impact":[],"civilian_infrastructure":[915,1022],"documentation":[],"citation":[1037,1051,1050],"class_list":["post-99825","civ","type-civ","status-publish","hentry","country-the-gaza-strip","belligerent-israeli-military","strike_type-airstrike","cause_of_death-heavy-weapons-and-explosive-munitions","strike_status-likely-strike","civilian_harm_reported-yes","civilian_harm_status-fair","geolocation_assessor-rowena-silva","declassified_document-no","geolocation_status-complete","observation-images-of-munitions","observation-newly-displaced-killed-or-injured","casualty-children","casualty-men","casualty-women","civilian_infrastructure-idp-camp","civilian_infrastructure-residential-building","citation-application-of-national-security-memorandum-20-to-israel","citation-classified-munitions","citation-open-source-munitions-portal"],"acf":{"latitude":"","longitude":"","geolocation_accuracy":"","multiple_location_incident":null,"geolocations":[{"latitude":31.348333,"longitude":34.293889,"geolocation_accuracy":"town","primary_coordinate":true}],"geojson":"","show_geolocation_caption":false,"geojson_caption":"","media_geolocation":null,"geolocation_notes":"Reports of the incident mention Khan Younis refugee camp (\u0645\u062e\u064a\u0645 \u062e\u0627\u0646 \u064a\u0648\u0646\u0633), for which the generic coordinates are: 31.348333, 34.293889. 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