Eyewitness testimony of Abu Sabla family massacre

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10003

Date

23 November, 2024

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@ShehabAgency

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"#شاهد| من المجزرة التي ارتكبها الاحتلال بحق عائلة "أبو سبلة" في منطقة البراق، غرب خانيونس، حيث قام الاحتلال بقصف منزل مجاور لخيام نازحين مما أدى إلى ارتقاء 6 شهداء بينهم 3 أطفال." - Source

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Archivist Notes On This Video

Witness 1: "We set up a tent next to the house here to live in. And as you can see, the occupation didn't bomb the house only but also the tent."

Witness 2: "It was the most difficult night we've experienced. I came here running. This is the tent of my sister. She lost her house in the war and now her tent too is gone. When we heard talk about the Abu Sabla family being struck we came here running. We found the scene like this. My sister's children were under the rubble, thank God they all survived. But our relatives from the Abu Sabla were martyred, may God have mercy on them and grant them a home in paradise. There ere five martyrs from the family in addition to a boy from the Darazi family, may God have mercy on him.

  • The house was inhabited?
  • Yes, inside the house were the woman, her husband, her children, nieces, and grandchildren.
  • And there was no warning?
  • None. It was sudden. The buzzing of the drones was very loud so we thought there may be a strike, then a while after we heard the sound of the strike, that's when we came running. It was the most difficult night we've seen in our life. Despite how much displacement we've been through going from one place to another, experiencing siege and everything else, this night was very very difficult especially for my sister and her children. Her daughter is one-month pregnant.

At 1:45, the woman shows the destroyed shelter of her sister where the latter, her husband and two daughters were sleeping. She clarifies the shelter was two tents covered by tinplates.

Archivist Notes: Abu Sabla family - Khan Younis

Minutes before midnight, an Israeli strike targeted the Abu Sabla family house in Al-Buraq area, southern Khan Younis.

Footage shows the hosue was totally destroyed along with tents surrounding it.

Names of the martyrs:

  1. Islam Alaa Abdulhamid Abu Sabla
  2. Alaa Abdulhamid Ahmad Abu Sabla
  3. Aalaa Alaa Abdulhamid Abu Sabla "Al-Qara"
  4. Malak Ihab Mohammed Al-Qara (child, Aalaa's daughter)
  5. Mahmoud Anwar Mahmoud Abu Sabla (child)
  6. Ghassan Ahmed Ghassan Daraz (child)

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