Search Operations for the Remains of the Salem Family Massacre (December 11, 2023)

On February 7, 2023, The Civil defense carried a search operations for the bodies of Palestinians under the rubble, reportedly at the Salem family house, on 2nd Street next to the heavily damaged Sheikh Radwan Government Health Center, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, Northern Gaza.

According to Aiwars, shortly before 7:43 AM on Monday, December 11th 2023, a series of alleged Israeli airstrikes hit six homes belonging to the extended Salem family in Sheikh Radwan, killing at least 102 civilians. Airwars was able to identify 104 named victims (102 fatalities, and two others injured), though some local reports put the death toll at 200 civilians.

In December 2023, there was no ability to rescue those trapped under the rubble, no cars transporting the martyrs and the injured. A family relative Ramy salem wrote: “107 martyrs so far and still missing under the rubble?” Another family relative, Ahmad Salem, alleged that the death toll was higher – according to him, about 130 members of his family were killed, including his uncles and aunts, and their children. A Facebook user Ana Safaa estimated that the number of the victims killed was even higher, up to 200, writing that “a large number of the family were martyred, approximately 200 martyrs, and a large number are also seriously injured.”