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Shehato family massacre (children blown out)

24 April, 2025
Gaza, Gaza City 📍34.46, 31.52
At least 15 martyred

Around 3:30 pm, an Israeli airstrike targeted an apartment at the Al-Siddiq residential tower in Al-Yarmouk of Gaza City.

The bombing led to the massacre of three generations of the Shehato family.

Child Ali Faraj survived the massacre after being blown by the explosion from the fifth floor to the rooftop of a neighboring building. His father and five siblings were killed. Ali and his mother were the only members of the family to survive.

Names of the martyrs:

  1. Mahmoud Shehato "Abu Hamza"
  2. Mahmoud Shehato's wife "Umm Hamza"
  3. Raghad Mahmoud Shehato (Mahmoud's daughter)
  4. Hamza Mahmoud Shehato (Mahmoud's son)
  5. Dima Hamza Shehato (Mahmoud's granddaughter)
  6. Mahmoud Hamza Shehato (Mahmoud's grandson)
  7. Nada Mahmoud Shehato (Mahmoud's daughter)
  8. Isam El-Saqa (Nada's son)
  9. Mohammad Zohdi Shehato
  10. Faraj Ali Faraj (Mahmoud's son-in-law)
  11. Zeina Faraj Faraj (Mahmoud's granddaughter)
  12. Leen Faraj Faraj (Mahmoud's granddaughter)
  13. Razan Faraj Faraj (Mahmoud's granddaughter)
  14. Suad Faraj Faraj (Mahmoud's granddaughter)
  15. Jouri Faraj Faraj (Mahmoud's granddaughter)

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