Name: 'Abd al-Karim Hussein Muhammad a-Silk
Date of event: 2014-07-30
Date of death: 2014-07-30
Age: 69.0
Citizenship: Palestinian
Gender: M
Event location: Gaza City
Took part in hostilities: No
Type of injury: gunfire
Killed by: Israeli security forces
Notes: Killed on the rooftop of his home with seven of his grandchildren (all minors) and his son – who was hit when he tried to come to the rescue of his daughter – while feeding the family’s rabbits and pigeons. They were killed in a strike on their home, which is near the marketplace in the neighborhood of a-Shuja’iyeh, Gaza City. In a strike on the marketplace shortly after, another 20 people were killed, including four medics, three of them Hamas military branch operatives