This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Sidra Hassouna was a 7-year-old Palestinian girl from the northern Gaza Strip who, along with her family as well as over 75 others, were killed during a series of airstrikes in Rafah carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on 12 February 2024.

As a result of the attack, Hassouna, her twin sister, 15-month old brother, parents, grandparents and uncle were killed after the IDF bombed the building they had been sheltering in Rafah, where she had been forcibly displaced.

"[1][2][3] On 12 February 2024, an airstrike assault was launched by the Israel Defense Forces on Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, where an estimated one million Palestinians,[4] including Hassouna and her family,[5] had been seeking refuge.

[4] Hassouna, along with her twin sister, 15-month old brother, parents, grandparents and uncle, who had been forcibly displaced from northern Gaza, were killed during the airstrikes when the building they had been sheltering in was bombed.

[5] As a result of the attacks, both of Hassouna's legs had been torn off by the airstrikes,[6][7] which left her lifeless body hanging from a higher point of a destroyed house.