Name: Nawal Isma'il Rayan
Date of event: 2009-01-01
Date of death: 2009-01-01
Age: 40.0
Citizenship: Palestinian
Gender: F
Event location: Jabalya R.C.
Took part in hostilities: No
Type of injury: shelling
Killed by: Israeli security forces
Notes: Wife of Nizar Rayan, a senior Hamas official. She was killed along with 15 members of her family when the family's house was bombed. The army contends that the house was used to store ammunition and a tunnel had been built under it. According to officials, the army warned the family but they refused to leave the house.