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12 March 2012
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At approximately 2:05 am on Monday 12 March 2012, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a house occupied by Bahjat Mohammed Idrees Hammad, 51, and owned by Jamal Mohammed Mhesein.
The house is located near Shuhadaa Jabaliya Primary School, northeast of Zemo crossroads in North Gaza district.
As a result, 31 people, including 21 children and six women, were injured.
Medical sources described the injuries of two of them as critical.
The house was totally destroyed, three adjacent houses were severely damaged, and seven houses were partially damaged in the attack.
The school building was partially destroyed as well.
According to Al Mezan’s field worker, some 333 windowpanes in the school were damaged.
A building for the ambulance and emergency service of the Red Crescent Society was also damaged.
Dozens of windowpanes in adjacent houses sustained light damages.
It should be noted that in this case the IOF attacked a residential house located in a densely populated area during midnight hours while people were at home sleeping.
These circumstances raised the number of injured, and caused terror among women and children.
Al Mezan has identified the injured as follows:
Mahmoud Hussein Abu Al ‘Aesh, 45;
Mustafa Hussein Abu Al ‘Aesh, 43;
Belal Noufal Abu Al ‘Aesh, 22;
Mu’az Noufal Abu Al ‘Aesh, 20, who sustained critical injuries;
Nagham Mustafa Abu Al ‘Aesh, 7;
Malak Mustafa Abu Al ‘Aesh, 10;
Mohammed Mustafa Abu Al ‘Aesh, 20;
Suhaib Noufal Abu Al ‘Aesh, 16;
Jumana Mahmoud Abu Al ‘Aesh, 15;
Samera Tawfeq Abu Al ‘Aesh, 48;
Wasfiya Hussein Abu Al ‘Aesh, 48;
Islam Mansi Abu Al ‘Aesh, 19;
Ilham Bahjat Hammad, 19;
Fayza Abdel Khaleq Hammad, 49;
Ayah Bahjat Hammad, 17;
Eman Bahjat Hammad, 8;
Saed Bahjat Hammad, 24;
Mohammed Bahjat Hammad, one and a half;
Jamal Tawfeq Hammad, 25;
Maslama Samer Sukkar, 4;
Mohammed Samer Sukkar, 6;
Alaa Samer Sukkar, 7;
Mu’men Samer Sukkar, 4;
Ayah Samer Sukkar, 2;
Ola Talal Sukkar, 29;
Samer Riyadh Sukkar, 34;
Fawzi Fayiz Kutkut, 26;
Mahmoud Omar Al ‘Amassi, 20;
Mohammed Saleh Khader, 23;
Faouzi Al Abed Mattar, 55; and
Eman Fayiz Mattar, 19.
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