Per Civil Defense: Four people were killed and several others wounded as a result of an Israeli air strike on a residential building belonging to the "Al-Qawqa" family in Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City. During rescue & recovery efforts, an Israeli quadcopter drone began flying over the Al-Shati camp. Their names: - Mohammed Atef Al-Qawqa - Omar Abu Musameh - Fahd Abu Ghaben "Makouk" - A fourth person later identified as Ahmed Abu Ghanem [PORTRAIT](https://x.com/swilkinsonbc/status/1836402417212039528) 38-year old Palestinian Ahmed Abu Ghanem was killed by israelis in front of his own home along with others in Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City

*Recent event - recovery of those under the rubble is still ongoing. Will be updated with more information and names when announced. - Civil Defense teams reported that they recovered **four bodies** and numerous injured in an afternoon Israeli attack targeting the home of the Hassouna family on Al-Wahda Street, in the vicinity of the Shuhada Al-Daraj clinic and Yarmouk Stadium, in Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighborhood. - They report five additional people remain trapped under the rubble, and note that **those killed and injured are from Hijazi and Rayashi families**, displaced in the targeted house. - They worked to rescue an elderly woman trapped under the rubble of her home following an Israeli attack. **18/09/2024 - Civil Defense update:** "The bodies of two martyrs were retrieved from the house, and 3 people are still missing under the rubble." - [PHOTO](https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1836071775085421017) Journalist Anas Al-Sharif, reporting from the scene: "This extended hand is stuck between life and death, clinging to the hope of survival... This woman suffered double the pain as **her leg was amputated while she was stuck in the rubble** in an attempt to save her life and she was transferred to the hospital in a very critical condition." - [PHOTO](https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1836064993952813362) The aftermath of the Israeli bombardment that targeted a residential building on Al-Wahda Street in Gaza City. - [PHOTO](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1836048609030074653) "Urgent: Targeting a house in Al-Wahda Street near Al-Jarjawi in Gaza City"

Professor and Researcher Mahmoud Salman Younis, Director of Shuhada Al-Nuseirat School, was killed when an Israeli drone fired a missile at a group of citizens (and a motorcycle) in the roundabout outside the Al-Ahli Club in Al-Nuseirat Camp. Twenty-five additional people were wounded in the attack. Casualties were taken to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp. Other injuries were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah due to the seriousness of their condition. This strike came hours after a previous one in the Tel al-Nuwairi area of Nuseirat camp, which had also caused several injuries. It's notable that the hospitals were already dealing with a massive surge of injuries and martyrs due to the Al-Baraka helicopter attack on tents in Deir al-Balah, and the Bureij camp Block 12 massacre, which both occured that same day. **1.) First strike** - Al-Nuwairi - Israeli raid targets a house in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/AJA_Palestine/status/1835974478364565666) - Injuries due to the occupation's bombing of Tel al-Nuwairi, west of al-Nuseirat camp, central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836019819579097545) - PHOTO: A number of casualties in artillery shelling in the vicinity of Tabet Al-Nuwairi, west of Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1836012413813997694) **2.) Second strike** - Hanoun family - An artillery shell fell on the house of the Haroun family in Block C in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/paldf/status/1836006407205798382) - No follow-up reports, assuming no injuries. **3.) Third strike** - Al-Ahli Club - Professor and Researcher Mahmoud Salman Younis, Director of Shuhada Al-Nuseirat School, was killed as a result of the Israeli air strike that targeted a group of citizens and a motorcycle outside the Al-Ahli Club in Al-Nuseirat Camp. Twenty-five other people were wounded in the attack PORTRAIT:[Source](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1836073757267333308) - An Israeli drone targeted a group of citizens with a missile near the Al-Ahli Club in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip in the afternoon. More than 7 injuries were transferred and arrived at Al-Awda Hospital in the camp. Other injuries were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah due to the seriousness of their condition. [Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1836033238051004476) - 25 wounded as a result of the occupation bombing a group of citizens at the Al-Ahli Club roundabout in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836045546345124018) - PHOTOS: Wounded people arrived at Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1836137817715675201) - Civil Defense: "A martyr and wounded as a result of Israeli shelling of a group of citizens in the vicinity of Al-Ahli Club in Al-Nuseirat Camp." [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836122474179891211) **5.) Continued bombardment** - Artillery shelling east of Al-Maghazi camp and north of Al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1836130810568515899) - Gunfire from vehicles northwest of Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/paldf/status/1836140560358289917) - Continued heavy machine gun fire north of Nuseirat camp, with the sounds of vehicles moving still being heard. [Source](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1836144718259814591) - The occupation forces blow up buildings in the Zahraa area, north of the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip [Source](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1836188993097977969)

*Ongoing emergency - the majority of victims and casualties are still trapped under the rubble. Civil Defense have been unable to reach them due to continued bombardment and targeting of their crews. There may still be survivors trapped.* ----------------------- At dawn, the IDF launched a vicious onslaught on multiple homes in Block 12 in Al-Bureij camp, central Gaza, with a combination of airstrikes and artillery shelling, in addition to employing drones to target first responders and prevent them from retrieving the martyrs and saving the lives of the injured persons. At least **5 family homes** have been struck and 2 families **largely decimated** in a massacre that where over 25 civilians are stimated to have been killed, including many children and women. Hours after the massacre, Israeli forces were still heavily **shooting** via drones and other means in Block 12 anyone moving or trying to **retrieve the bodies** of victims. ([Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1836003200295428538)) Abdulaziz Mohammed, a volunteer with the ambulance and emergency services confirmed they are still being targeted whil responding to distress calls: "*Appeals are coming from Al-Bureij camp in the middle of the Strip, with numbers of wounded and martyrs that no one has been able to retrieve. For your information, we went to the place and were directly targeted with shells and gunfire.*" [Tweet](https://x.com/abdazizmo7amd/status/1836040660073222650) **Ongoing search efforts** - On the day after, the bodies of 4 members of the Abu Shouqa were recovered from the rubble, bringing the total number of recovered victims' bodies to 12 (8 from Abu Shouqa, and 4 from Al-Tartouri family) - On September 19, 3 bodies were recovered: a woman, a man, and torn body parts of a victim - On September 20, one man's body was recovered. **Israeli bombardment continued throughout September 17, preventings rescuers from approaching the scene:** - Injuries due to the occupation drones firing on houses in Bureij [Source](https://x.com/ShehabAgency/status/1836138314723950724) [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836115189651116474) - Israeli bombing targeted Block 6 in Al-Bureij [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836061534021111993) [Source](https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1836063054301368755) - Israeli artillery shelling and smoke bombs fired east of Bureij [Source](https://x.com/SafaPs/status/1836033012556767691) [Source](https://x.com/Alhadath_news1/status/1836003730346352868) **Palestinian Civil Defense** Initial announcements at the onset of the assault: - Received dozens of distress calls - Upon reaching the area, **Israeli aircraft targeted the crew**, forcing them to **withdraw** from the area due to the danger. - One Civil Defense member was **injured** - Urged the Red Cross to urgently coordinate access to the area targeted by recent Israeli airstrikes in Bureij refugee camp to rescue survivors before it’s too late. - **The area had been closed to ambulances and rescue teams for 5 hours**." [Source](https://x.com/gazanotice/status/1835988523465252881) ## List of targeted homes (identified) - Al-Batran family home - Abu Shouqa family home - Al-Tartouri family home - Abu Saed Abu Al-Kas family home - Abu Ayman Al-Baba family home - Saada family home, east of the Saafin carpentry *"People carry the martyrs on foot from the eastern areas of Bureij camp (Block 12) to Salah al-Din Street, so that they can reach an ambulance or a passing car to transport them to Al-Awda Health Center in Nuseirat or Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah. Which means that this process will last (one to two hours) until the person who was recovered from under the rubble arrives after spending up to 10 hours under the rubble, while the others are still under the rubble."* [Source](https://x.com/ibrahimzalhaj1/status/1835948796292874506) ## Casualties (to be confirmed)** : - 16 bodies recovered out of 29 persons presumed killed - About 80 victims are presumed buried under the rubble [Source](https://x.com/islambader1988/status/1835947603378200734) ## List of the martyrs that were found (provisional): **Abu Shouqa family: 19 members** - Salem Abu Shouqa "Abu Yasser" - Umm Yasser Abu Shouqa - Muhammad Salem Abu Shouqa - Umm Hussein Abu Shouqa - Fatima Awad "Umm Hassan" - Moatasim Abu Shouqa - Hassan Hussein Abu Shouqa - Ahmad Hussein Abu Shouqa - Moatasim Hussein Abu Shouqa (recovered Sep 18) - Ibrahim Abu Shouqa - Ibrahim Abu Shouqa's wife - Ibrahim Abu Shouqa's daughter - Muhammad Al-Basha Abu Shouqa - Reda Anwar Qatayef - Salem Abu Shouqa's daughter - Moataz Abu Shouqa - Moataz Abu Shouqa's wife - Moataz Abu Shouqa's son - Amro Abu Shouqa **Al-Tartouri family: 11 members** - Farid Mahmoud Al-Tartouri (63 y/o) - Farid Mahmoud Al-Tartouri's wife - Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Tartouri - Muhammad Mahmoud Al-Tartouri's wife - Yasser Farid Al-Tartouri - Saed Farid Al-Tartouri - Yousra Farid Al-Tartouri - Hani Muhammad Al-Tartouri - Ahmed Muhammad Al-Tartouri - Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Tartouri - Jana Muhammad Al-Tartouri **Portrait photos of identified martyrs:** - "Martyrs of the Abu Shouqa family" [Photo](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1837162224617414793) [Photo](https://x.com/NourNaim88/status/1839010685256163614) - "Martyrs of the Al-Tartouri family" [Photo](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1836067516419883230) - Flower seller Moatasim Abu Shouqa [Photo](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1836095649579704378) - Journalist Mohammed Abu Shouqa (posted by journalist Huda Naim) [Photo](https://x.com/HuDa_NaIm92/status/1835983599255924866) - Hani Muhammad Al-Tartouri and his brother Abdurrahman, killed months before [Photo](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1835986382436634789)

Late night IDF strike on Al-Shoubaki family on Al-Sahaba Street in the center of Gaza City. 1 person was pronounced killed, visibly torn to shreds in Civil Defense footage, along with a number of injuries including one child at least.

After midnight, in the early hours of September 17th, 2024, two people were killed, and seven injured - mostly children - when a helicopter bombed the Al-Sadaqa Swiss Camp in the Al-Baraka area of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Body parts were recovered at the scene, and casualties were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Identified: - Ayada Salama Abu al-Qambaz, 23 years old, displaced resident of Shuja'iyya, Gaza City

Around midnight, **Israel launched an air strike** on the Al-Shami family’s house, on Al-Thalathini Street, near Al-Salam Mosque in Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, **killing three members of the family**, and wounding others. Three people, a child and his parents were killed. **Their surviving child died** of his injuries sustained in the attack a short time later bringing the death toll to **four**. **Names of the martyrs:** - [Hatem Ali Al-Shami](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1835984196923228223) (father) - [Randa Al-Kashef](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1835984196923228223) (mother) - [Yazan Mahmoud Hatem Al-Shami](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1835984196923228223) - [Firas Hatem Al-Shami](https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1838196151385780514), succumbed to his injuries, joining his parents and brother

Three young men were killed, and others wounded, as a result of shelling that targeted a group of citizens near Al-Nada Towers, in the vicinity of Beit Hanoun Estate, in the northern Gaza Strip. They are: - Kamal Jamil Al-Madhoun. - Hussein Ihsan Abu Jarad. - Majd Al Shami "Abu Jamal" Name & Photo source: https://x.com/Qadeyah1/status/1835698534303051848/photo/1

**September 16th, 2024 was a deadly day in Rafah. In four separate events, the IDF targeted homes, agricultural activities, public gatherings, and a simple pedestrian. Seven people were killed, and others injured in these attacks. ** **In chronological order:** 1. **Two killed at Abu Shaar poultry farm, near Zaghloul Refrigerators** Hajja Iqzayah Al-Akhras, "Umm Bassam", and her son Marwan Ibrahim Abu Shaar, were killed as a result of a bombing that targeted their home north of Rafah. Civil Defense: "Two people were killed, including an elderly woman, and there were a number of injuries in the bombing of the Abu Shaar family poultry farm opposite the Zaghloul Refrigerator northwest of Rafah city. It is a commercial facility, which was housing displaced people." 2. **Two killed in Musabah area, Al-Shuhada Street** Muhammad Hamdan Qishta & his brother Nour Hamdan Qishta were killed in an Israeli drone strike on their tractor in the Musabah area, north of Rafah Civil Defense reported: The bodies of two martyred brothers from the Qishta family were recovered after an agricultural tractor was targeted in Al-Shuhada Street in the Musabah area, north of Rafah Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip, this afternoon. 3. **Two killed in Al-Aqqad "Pump" school area, Khirbet Al-Adas, Genena neighborhood** Two people were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a group of citizens near the Al-Aqqad ("Pump") school in Khirbet Al-Adas, north of Rafah The ambulance and emergency unit at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar Hospital retrieved the body of Abdullah Wajih Abu Zaid, from the vicinity of the pump school in the Genena neighborhood, east of Rafah city. The name of the second victim is currently unknown. [Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1835641589902778765) 4. **One killed at Thalaqa Zaghloul intersection** Wael Abdel Fattah Safi was killed by an Israeli drone attack near the Thalaja Zaghloul intersection, (Zaghloul Refrigerators), north of Rafah. His body was retrieved and originally reported as "an unidentified martyr targeted by a reconnaissance missile near the Zaghloul refrigerator, northwest of the city of Rafah"

In the afternoon, Israel bombed the Muhareb family home near Al-Ihsan Mosque in the vicinity of the new market in Al-Nuseirat camp, Central Gaza. The family was targeted only 3 days prior to this attack on September 13, as well as on July 13. **Casualties:** - 3 people were killed, one man was found gruesomely mangled. - 14 injuries reported. - Victims were taken to Al-Awda Hospital Al Nusseirat. **Names of the martyrs:** - Hassan Ibrahim Hassan Balousha - Hashem Abddulhamid Muhareb - Abdulhamid Deeb Muhareb [Source](https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1835686084526706858)