Family besieged in Khan Younis flees home in the dark, under ceaseless Israeli gunfire

No.

6186

Date

1 October, 2024

Found by

Mosab Abu Toha

Location

📍 Khan Younis - South Gaza
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Original Social Media Post

"Friends. This is important to watch and share. This is a video posed now by a mother in Khan Younis. It’s late evening when the Israeli tanks advanced towards the houses in south of Khan Younis. It’s dark inside and outside. Parents could barely see their children. I hear a girl asking, “should we go right or left?” And then the mother asked about her neighbors whether they were leaving with them. They walked beside the walls before getting into their car. On the way, they encountered frightened children walking in the street. They invited them to get into the car with them. There was an air strike close to them. And the gunpowder was blocking the sight and suffocating everyone. This is only a minute and a half. It’s been a year."
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Archivist Notes On This Video

The family is fleeing their home in pitch darkness as Israeli armored vehicles were getting close. The mother is heard instructing children fumbling in the dark to stick by the wall, and giving them directions before they managed to get into their car. The family picked up other children (possibly relatives) on the way, and kept praying for safety on the way.

Archivist Notes: Khan Younis 12 hours siege & massacre

On the night of October, seemingly as an immediate response to the Iranian reprisal, Israeli tanks advanced suddenly through various areas of Khan Younis and fired indiscriminately at civilian homes along with aerial strikes.

Summary of the Events in the City of Khan Yunis

  • Tanks advanced from Rafah via the Mirage West intersection, quickly entering the Qizan al-Najjar area amidst intense artillery and aerial bombardments.
  • The vehicles moved toward the Al-Manara neighborhood, and violently shelled to the neighborhoods of Qizan Al-Najjar, Ma’an, Qaa Al-Qurain, Al-Manara, and Al-Salam.
  • A martyr from the Al-Shaer family was retrieved after being shot in the Qaizan Al-Najjar area. Another martyr from the Abu Hammad family in Bani Suhaila, along with additional martyrs near the Tahlia (water treatment) intersection.
  • More than five homes have been bombed, with dozens of martyrs and injured people reported in these areas. Among the targeted homes are those of the Abu Mustafa, Al-Ashra, Al-Farra, Al-Qudra, Al-Agha, and Al-Masry families.
  • Tanks have reached the outskirts of Salah al-Din Street, coming from Al-Maghariba Street in the Al-Falahah district.
  • Martyrs and injured people have been reported due to gunfire on some roads. Hundreds of families are trapped in the aforementioned neighborhoods.
  • Report on Israeli assault source
  • Israeli drones shot at Civil Defense crews on the way to rescue 26 casualties across the Qizan al-Najajr and Miraj areas. Source
  • Families sleep out at the European Gaza Hospital in the absence of any sheletr or safety
  • Flock of drones deployed and shoot at anything that moves
  • Midnight: Artillery shelling (https://x.com/Hamzaalnamla1/status/1841226347097575892)
  • Multiple families besieged, terrorized under endless - Israeli gunfire, and with people under the rubble unable to receive any help.
  • Civil Defense were only allowed to respond to SOS around 4am, almost half a day after the surprise Israeli onslaught was launched

Casualties :

The number of Palestinian civilians killed in the massacre carried out by Israel last night in the Al-Manara neighborhood, Al-Salam neighborhood, Murtaja, and Ma'an in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza had reached at least 60. The identities of over 40 have been confirmed below.

Al-Masry family

Two people were killed from Al-Masry family by Israeli artillery shelling on the family's house in Al-Manara area.

  1. Baraa Tayseer Muhammad Al-Masry
  2. Muhammad Yassin Muhammad Al-Masry

Al-Bashiti family martyrs

Names of the victims found in their home in Al-Manara :

  1. Samir Bassam Al-Bashiti (infant)
  2. Mira Bassam Al-Bashiti (infant)
  3. Fatima Al-Bashiti
  4. Ramadan Shahada Al-Bashiti

Portraits of siblings Samir and Mira

Slayeh family martyrs

Journalist Hassan Slayeh stated while documenting the destruction of the house that the 3-storey house belonged to his direct relative Musa. Source

Hassan confirmed four of his relatives were killed at the house:

  1. Fawzia Talab Slayeh
  2. Rahaf Naim Al-Jarjawi Slayeh
  3. Dalal Ayyad Slayeh
  4. Musa Ismail Attia Slayeh

Abu Taha family martyrs

Names of the victims at dawn today in Al-Manara:

  1. Fatima Salama Abu Taha
  2. Janat Salama Abu Taha
  3. Yaqin Salama Abu Taha
  4. Rasha Mahmoud Abu Taha
  5. Sajed Issa Abu Taha
  6. Issa Issa Abu Taha
  7. Qamar Manar Abu Taha
  8. Zain Muhammad Abu Taha (child)
  9. Ziad Muhammad Abu Taha (child) Source Portrait of brothers Zain and Ziad

Al-Farra family martyrs

Over 20 members of the Al-Farra family lost their lives at home in the Ma'an area. The bodies of 8 people have been pulled from the rubble, and efforts have been ongoing for two days to recover the remaining 12 trapped under the debris. Martyr Dr. Muhammad Al-Farra, owner of Sheikh Nasser Pharmacy, was killed along with his two sons, Abdulaziz and Nasrallah. The bodies of the Al(Farra family members were retrieved from the rubble of their home over the courses of multiple days.

Names of those who were found include:

  1. Dr. Mohammed Nasrallah Al-Farra
  2. Nasrallah Mohammed Nasrallah Al-Farra (child)
  3. Abdulaziz Mohammed Nasrallah Al-Farra (child)
  4. Maj. Suleiman Ali Al-Farra (Abu Uday)
  5. Ammar Saleh Ali Al-Farra
  6. Abdul-Raouf Saleh Ali Al-Farra
  7. Ahmed Saleh Ali Al-Farra
  8. Their mother, the wife of the late Saleh Ali Al-Farra: Mona Ali Saleh Al-Farra
  9. Mustafa Suleiman Al-Farra
  10. Al-Yamaan Mustafa Al-Farra
  11. Prof. Salwa Suleiman Al-Farra
  12. Majed Montaser Al-Farra (child, found October 4)
  13. Salwa Mohammed Bassam Al-Farra
  14. Taqwa Muhammad Bassam Al-Farra
  15. Hajja Watfa Abdul Salam Al-Farra
  16. Suhaila Ayman Suleiman Abdeen (wife of Mohammed Bassam Al-Farra)
  17. Hajja Watfa Abdul Salam Al-Farra
  18. Abdul-Malik Mohammed Bassam Al-Farra
  19. Sawsan Suleiman Al-Farra

Under the rubble:

  1. Dr. Montaser Mohammed Al-Farra
  2. Mohammed Bassam Al-Farra

Source Subsequent retrieval

Al-Zard family martyrs:

Four members of the Al-Zard family were killed while sheltering in the hous eof the Al-Agha family.

This is the family of journalist Ahmed al-Zard, cameraman for the Al-Kufiya channel in southeastern Khan Younis.

  1. Abdul Karim Salama Al-Zard
  2. Dr. Majd Mohammed Al-Zard
  3. Mohamed Ramadan Al-Zard
  4. Hanan Al-Zard

Global list of names (to be confirmed)

According to Gaza notification, the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the massacre carried out by Israel last night in the Al-Manara neighborhood, Al-Salam neighborhood, Murtaja, and Ma'an in the Khan Yunis area of Gaza has reached 57. The identities of 51 of them have been confirmed : 43. Hossam Othman Al-Tawil (found October 4)

  1. Moamen Mohammed Jadallah Dhahir

  2. Mariam Khamis Al-Ashira

  3. Mohammed Ramadan Al-Razz

  4. Mohammed Khaled Hejazi

  5. Adeeb Ragheb Sakik

  6. Ikram Abdul Halim Abdul Ma'ti

  7. Abdul Rahman Naeem Saqr

  8. Jouri Naeem Saqr

  9. Majd Mohammed Al-Razz

  10. Karim Salama Al-Razz

  11. Hanan Ismail Al-Sultan

  12. Nahla Al-Shaer (Qeizan Al-Najjar)

  13. Ra'ika Abu Hamad (Bani Suhaila, quadcopter strike)

  14. Ala'a Hassan Al-Najjar

  15. Yaqout Haitham Abu Mustafa

  16. Osama Mustafa Abu Mustafa

  17. Jasim Saleh Hamad

  18. Baraa Tamer Al-Qudra

  19. Naseem Abdul Hamid Hamad

  20. Mohammed Sami Qudaih (Khuza'a)

  21. Jihad Mohammed Qudaih (Khuza'a)

  22. Samira Shahada Qudaih (Khuza'a)

  23. Ala'a Fathi Abu Sneimeh (Al-Mashrou')

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