9 of a physician’s 10 kids have been killed in an Israeli missile strike on their house in Gaza, which additionally left her surviving son badly injured and her husband in a crucial situation.
Warning: This text incorporates particulars of kid deaths
Alaa Al Najjar, a paediatrician at Al Tahrir Clinic within the Nasser Medical Advanced, was at work throughout the assault on her house, south of town of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, on Friday.
Graphic footage shared by the Hamas-run Palestinian Civil Defence exhibits the our bodies of a minimum of seven babies being pulled from the rubble.
Rescuers might be seen battling fires and looking out via a collapsed constructing, shouting out after they find a physique, earlier than bringing the kids out one after the other and wrapping their stays in physique baggage.
Within the footage, Dr Al Najjar’s husband, Hamdi Al Najjar, who can be a physician, is placed on to a stretcher after which carried to an ambulance.
The oldest of their kids was solely 12 years previous, based on Dr Muneer Alboursh, the director basic of Gaza’s well being ministry, which is run by Hamas.
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9 kids have been killed within the strike. Pic: Palestinian Civil Defence
“This is the reality our medical staff in Gaza endure. Words fall short in describing the pain,” he wrote in a social media submit.
“In Gaza, it is not only healthcare workers who are targeted – Israel’s aggression goes further, wiping out entire families.”
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Pic: Palestinian Civil Defence
British medical doctors describe ‘horrific’ and ‘unimaginable’ assault
Two British medical doctors working at Nasser Hospital described the assault as “horrific” and “unimaginable” for Dr Al Najjar.
Talking in a video diary on Friday night time, Dr Graeme Groom mentioned his final affected person of the day was Dr Al Najjar’s 11-year-old son, who was badly injured and “seemed much younger as we lifted him on to the operating table”.
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Hamdi Al Najjar, Dr Al Najjar’s husband who can be a physician, was taken to hospital. Pic: Palestinian Civil Defence
The strike “may or may not have been aimed at his father”, Dr Groom mentioned, including that the person had been left “very badly injured”.
Dr Victoria Rose mentioned the household “lived opposite a petrol station, so I don’t know whether the bomb set off some massive fire”.
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Pic: Palestinian Civil Defence
‘No political or navy connections’
Dr Groom added: “It is unimaginable for that poor woman, both of them are doctors here.
“The daddy was a doctor at Nasser Hospital. He had no political and no navy connections. He does not appear to be outstanding on social media, and but his poor spouse is the one unhurt one, who has the prospect of shedding her husband.”
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He mentioned it was “a particularly sad day”, whereas Dr Rose added: “That is life in Gaza. That is the way it goes in Gaza.”
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Israel’s battle in opposition to Hamas in Gaza started when the militant group stormed throughout the border into Israel on 7 October 2023, killing some 1,200 individuals, most of them civilians, and abducting 251 others.
Israel’s navy response has flattened massive areas of Gaza and killed greater than 53,000 Palestinians, principally ladies and youngsters, based on Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its rely.
