Around 3:30 pm, Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes on a residential block in northern areas of Gaza City. The bombing leveled several residential buildings notably in Al-Jalla and Al-Yarmouk areas.

The residential block was comprised of Al-Taj 3 and Juwaid residential buildings, and the houses of Hanoun, Mansour, Jadallah, and Akila families, as well as Al-Sharq bakery.

Over a 100 people were killed and more than double that nukmber injured. Notable among the massacred families were those sheltering in the five-storey "Al-Taj 3" residential bulding where 39 members of the Sharaf family were killed, including journalist Duaa Sharaf, her baby son Obaida, her parents and other relatives. The Sharaf family was largely decimated, leaving only Duaa's husband and cousin, journalist Yossof Sharaf alive.

Civil Defense crews had managed to rescue members of Al-Ramlawi family

According to her husband Mahmoud Haniya, Duaa, Obaida, and 37 of her relatives were killed.

Between September 7th and 23th 2026, nearly three years later, Palestinian Civil Defense crews, with support from the Egyptian Relief COmmittee, managed to recover the remains of 101 victims from under the rubble.

Testimony from Dr. Izzeddin Shaheen who was treating the injured at Al-Shifa hospital at the time: "*This photo was taken by the martyred Dr. Fidaa from the operations at Al-Shifa Hospital on the first day of the war. On this day a year ago, Israel committed a massacre by targeting the Al-Taj building and its surroundings. The event, despite its enormity, did not receive the attention it deserved at that time due to the interruption of communications and the Internet. I remember well the huge number of injuries.

*Most of the injuries were serious, you could barely find a place to put your foot between the bodies of the injured. I was carrying dozens of blood units and randomly placing them on the injured. Everyone was bleeding and there were no operating rooms available. As soon as I finished distributing blood to the injured, I would return to the first injured person and find him dead, and so on, everyone was bleeding.

*Everyone was bleeding to death and we had nothing to do for them. We didn't feel the time passing until midnight, then we learned that one of our colleagues' daughters had died in the hospital while he was working with us and was busy with her, so we all started crying. Bitter crying, the whole department is crying, everyone hides their faces and cries, crying for everyone, for the injured and for the poor girl. The poor girl crowded the bodies of the massacre's martyrs with her body to find a grave to hold her, and the martyr Fidaa ascended a few days later with her children. A whole year has passed and we are still living under genocide."

Names of the martyrs (identified):

1. Duaa Sharaf (Haniya)
2. Obaida Mahmoud Haniya (Duaa's son; 6 months old)
3. Abu Osama Sharaf (Duaa's father)
4. Duaa's mother
5. Wisam Sharaf (sister)
6. Israa Sharaf (sister)
7. Abu Ismail Sharaf (Duaa uncle / father of journalist Yossof Sharaf)
8. Umm Ismail Sharaf (Yossof's mother)
9. Islam Baalousha (Yossof's wife)
10. Malak Yossof Sharaf (Yossof's daughter)
11. Malek Yossof Sharaf (Yossof's son)
12. Yamin Yossof Sharaf (Yossof's daughter)
13. Noor Yossof Sharaf (Yossof's daughter)
14. Ismail Sharaf (Yossof's brother)
15. Ismail Sharaf's wife
16. Ismail Sharaf's son
17. Abdurrahim Sharaf (Yossof's brother)
18. Abdurrahim Sharaf's wife
19. Abdurrahim Sharaf's son
20. Abdurrahim Sharaf's 3 daughters
21. Salah Sharaf (Yossof's brother)
22. Hamza Salah Sharaf
23. Asmaa Sharaf (Yossof's sister)
24. Asmaa Sharaf's daughters
25. Aalaa Sharaf (Yossof's sister)
26. Aalaa Sharaf's daughters
27. Dr. Khaled Sharaf (Lecturer at Al-Aqsa University)
28. Dr. Khaled Sharaf's wife
29. Abdullah Khaled Sharaf
30. Karim Khaled Sharaf
31. Wajdi Khaled Sharaf
32. Abdulaziz Mahmoud Abudaff (13 y/o)
33. Aya Mahmoud Aboudaff (Abdulaziz's sister)
34. Abulaziz Aboudaff's mother
35. Lana Fadi Dawud (child)
36. Hala Fadi Dawud (child)
37. Sama Fadi Dawud (child)
38. Jouri Fadi Dawud (child)
39. Asmaa Dawud (mother of the Dawud children)
40. Ahmad Mahmoud Abu Habl