Satellite imagery, screenshot from Google Earth, October 2023
At approximately 11:30 AM, on Thursday, October 10, 2024, a declared Israeli airstrike hit the Rafidah School in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. The attack killed at least 30 civilians, including seven women and four children, and injured at least 54 others. At the time of the strike, the school was sheltering hundreds of displaced
On Monday, 4 December 2023, at least one child was reportedly killed and others were wounded, including children, in an alleged Israeli airstrike that struck the Khalifa Bin Zaid School in Beit Lahia in the north governorate of the Gaza Strip. The Khalifa Bin Zaid school housed displaced people at the time of the strike.
In the late afternoon of June 24, 2024, at around 3pm, at least three members of a committee securing aid were killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. The strike occurred near a humanitarian aid provisions center in Al-Shati Refugee Camp. Of the committee members who were killed,
At least three young men on an oil tanker were killed in alleged Israeli drone strikes off the coastal city of Baniyas on April 24, 2021 according to local sources. A tweet from @SAMSyria0 reported that “the body of the young man, Ahmed Amin, from Arwad Island – Tartous, who is a crew member of
Between one and two civilians were killed and three to four others, including a child, were injured in alleged Israeli airstrikes on Al-Nazzaz Street in eastern Shujayya on May 12, 2021. A tweet from @PalinfoAr reported: “two martyrs and 4 injured as a result of the Israeli bombing of a house for the Al-Naasan family
At least six civilians, including three women and two children, were injured in a reported Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia city on May 14, 2021. The majority of sources reported six injuries, including a civilian in critical condition. The Palestinian Centre of Human Rights and Al Haq said the victims included three women
Suleinman Issam and a member of the Abu Musa family (age 29) were reported wounded by shelling from an alleged Israeli airstrike in Wadi al-Salq at 8:40 am on May 17th, 2021. Local sources reported that Suleiman Issam was moderately wounded by the shrapnel from artillery shells targeting the Al-Batound Street in Wadi al-Saqa in
On May 20th, 2021, two civilians were reported killed by an Israeli airstrike on a car in the al-Saftawi area, west of Jabalia camp in the Northern Gaza Strip. Identified as Suhaib Al-Kahlout and Muyasara Al-Aarer, both were on al-Saftawi street, a commercial thoroughfare in Gaza City. In addition, Al-Monitor reports that the airstrikes halted
On October 9th 2023, ambulance driver Khaled Issa was allegedly injured, and one local source added that crew members were allegedly killed, after Israeli aircrafts reportedly hit three ambulances at Naser al Trans roundabout, Jabalya, in the Gaza strip. Multiple sources corroborated that there were three ambulances struck in the attack and that they were
On October 7, 2023, an alleged Israeli airstrike which struck the home of the Abu Qouta family reportedly killed up to 27 civilians, including up to 19 members of the Abu Qouta family and at least five neighbors, and up to eight children and at least one woman, in addition to injuring 25 others. The
On October 10th, 2023, 22 members of the Ahmed family were reported killed, including seven children, by an alleged Israeli airstrike on their family home in Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Initial reporting by @Jales_tinian2 said five people were killed instantly and another eight were found under the rubble. While most sources estimated
Between 15 and 18 civilians were killed and up to 23 were reportedly injured, including four children, when an alleged Israeli bomb hit the four-storey home of the Abu Hayya family on October 12th 2023., The house was located in the Al-Saftawi area, in the northern Gaza Strip. Shehab Agency reported that there were casualties
On October 7th 2023, at least one civilian woman was killed and at least five civilians were injured in an alleged bombing on the home of the Abu Daqqa family in the town of Abasan al Kabira in the Gaza Strip. No sources identified the alleged perpetrator of the attack – Airwars has therefore categorised
Around 11:25 in the morning on Friday, October 13th, 2023, at least 14 identified civilians from the Safi and Kaloub families, including at least four women and nine children, were killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the Safi family home in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip. A 37-year old Inshirah
On Tuesday morning, October 17 2023, between 12 and 28 civilians were reported killed, including at least 2 children, and others were injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a five-storey house behind the al-Kuwaiti hospital in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza. While one source on social media claimed that there were 12 killed
At dawn on Monday, October 16th, 2023, between four to seven civilians, including four to six paramedics, were reportedly killed and several more injured when two alleged Israeli airstrikes hit an ambulance and the Civil Defense headquarters in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood southwest of in Gaza City. Initially a Facebook user Ahmed Saleha reported that
On October 22, 2023, at least 20 civilians – including women and children – were killed after an alleged Israeli airstrike on the al-Astal family home in central Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Numerous others were reported injured, though exact figures are unknown. The patriarch of the family, 61-year old Muhammad Sukeiman Turki al-Astal was killed
At dawn on Saturday, October 21st 2023, the home of Hani Al-Madhoun, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Al-Aqsa TV, was allegedly hit by an Israeli airstrike, killing Hani Al-Madhoun alongside 11 members of his immediate family. Sources on social media posted the names of the relatives of 59-year old Hani Al-Madhoun, also known as
Three members of the Dhahir family were killed and six others were injured by an alleged Israeli strike on their home in the Khirbet al-Adas area in the north of Rafah city, on Sunday, October 22, 2023: father Sami Abdel Khalil Dhahir, his son 18-year-old Khalil Sami Dhahir, as well as 33-year-old Mutair Abdel Salam
On Thursday, 19 October, 2023, a number of civilians were reportedly injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on a civilian house near the Tunis School and a house near the Al-Aidoun Mosque, in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood south to the Gaza City. The strike was initially reported at 10:34am. The Shehab Agency, numerous Facebook posts and
An alleged Israeli airstrike shortly before 10:55 PM on Saturday October 21st 2023, killed at least 13 civilians and injured 17 others sheltering in a café in Khan Younis. Shehab Agency was the first to report the incident at 10:55 PM, sharing images of the injured men being transported on stretchers. At 11:32 PM Safa
On Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, an Israeli aircraft allegedly bombed the Abu Musabbeh family home containing a bakery located on Abu Hosni Street, in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza Strip, reportedly flattening it to the ground. According to publicly available accounts, this resulted in the deaths of at least 30 and up to more than
On October 24th 2023, an alleged Israeli strike hit the house of the Natat family, near Rabaa Al-Adawiya School within the vicinity of Ali Mosque, west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring at least two people based on images provided by local sources. Multiple local sources reported that “injuries” resulted from the strike
Shortly before 3:10 PM on Thursday, October 19, 2023, the Abu Odeh (Abu Aouda) family home located by the Al Mustafa stadium behind the Al Amal neighbourhood market in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, was destroyed in an alleged Israeli airstrike. One source, @Hamzaalnamla1, in a post on X/Twitter described the strike as occurring in the
Between 80 and “over 200” people were killed and dozens of others were wounded by an alleged Israeli airstrikes on the Al-Fakhoura School in the Jabalia Camp of Northern Gaza in the early morning of November 18th, 2023. Soon after the strike, the Ministry of Health reported that 50 people had been killed. Another ministry
During the morning of October 26th 2023, two farm workers were reportedly killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike and/or artillery strike on a poultry farm near the Al Bureij cemetery in the Al Bureij Refugee Camp located in the central Gaza Strip. The names of the victims have not been made public. Palestinian Press Agency
On the afternoon of October 23, 2023, the al-Salhi Towers were allegedly bombed in an Israeli airstrike, killing at least five people, all women and children, and injuring at least 36 others. The residential apartments in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Central Gaza Strip were occupied when the bombing occurred. Airwars researchers have identified the
On Wednesday, January 10th 2024, volunteer journalist and photographer for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), 26-year-old Fouad Abu Khammash, was killed alongside three members of PRCS crew and two patients in an ambulance on Salah al-Din Street in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was hit by
Shortly before 10:47 PM on Tuesday, October 31st 2023, at least 21 members of the Abu al-Eish and al-Helou families, including at least nine women and seven children, were reportedly killed and dozens injured in an alleged Israeli airstrike on the home of the Abu al-Eish family in the Block 2 of Jabalia refugee camp,
On Tuesday, October 10, 2023, a Palestinian man named Ahmed Siam was killed during the bombing of the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City. Airwars’ researchers identified two social media posts with information about the incident and shared an image of the killed man. As no explicit attribution to a belligerent has been made, the civilian