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‘I’ve misplaced my household, however for what?’: Man’s spouse and two daughters killed in Iranian strike on Israel

By Editorial Board Published June 16, 2025 5 Min Read
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‘I’ve misplaced my household, however for what?’: Man’s spouse and two daughters killed in Iranian strike on Israel

Cups of espresso are being fastidiously poured into small paper cups, each served with a comforting embrace.

Shut by, huddled below an arched courtyard, girls of all ages are sitting, grieving in their very own method.

Some are sobbing, others look dazed, others determined.

Their intermittent wails of grief puncture the silence. But there’s a fantastic stillness about all of it.

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The Khatib household house was destroyed in Tamra, Israel

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We have arrived simply for the time being Tamra, Israel, has come to a standstill.

Everybody right here is ready for the our bodies of 4 members of the Khatib household to return, killed when a ballistic missile from Iran hit their house on Saturday night time.

Manar Khatib was killed alongside two of her daughters – 20-year-old Shada, and 13-year-old Hala – and her sister-in-law, additionally known as Manar.

Layan Diab, the 23-year-old cousin of the girls

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Layan Diab, the 23-year-old cousin of the women

Layan Diab, 23, is a cousin of the women. She’s in disbelief.

“It’s a deep loss. It hurts my soul. We lost our entire family. Four people here. I can’t fathom it. I don’t understand. It’s unbelievable,” she says. And she or he’s afraid of the approaching days.

“Every time we hear the sirens, people start to scream and remember,” she says.

Simply down the road is the women’ grieving father, Raja Khatib.

Raja Al Khatib, the father of four girls killed in Israel by an Iranian bomb

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Raja Khatib misplaced 4 members of the family, together with his spouse and two of his daughters, within the Iranian assault

A physician with a captivating heat, he begins to talk Italian, assuming we could also be from Italy.

He’d simply returned from a vacation there together with his spouse and kids in Ferrara.

His eyes fill with tears as he says that if solely he’d stayed a day longer, they might all be alive at present.

‘I really feel horrible. I really feel hearth in my physique… I hope that I’ll survive this second. I’ve misplaced my household, however for what? A missile from Iran?”

Debris, including shoes, was thrown across the street by the impact of the missile

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Particles, together with footwear, was thrown throughout the road by the impression of the missile

I ask if he sees an finish to this battle between Iran and Israel. He appears despairing.

“Conflict with Iran, Lebanon, Gaza. We have a government who want[s] war. We want peace. We want to live.”

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Listening in supportively from the facet is his center daughter, 17-year-old Razan, who miraculously survived the blast.

That night, she’d been out to purchase cookies together with her sisters.

Once they returned, Razan and her older sister Shada performed music and watched movies on their telephones.

The al Khatib family home was destroyed in Tamra, Israel

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The Khatib household house was wrecked within the assault

When the alarms began to sound, they dismissed them at first.

However after a loud growth, Razan was unsettled and began to make her approach to one of many secure rooms, imploring Shada to do the identical.

However solely Razan went.

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“In one moment, everything went dark. I couldn’t see anything. I asked Allah, please don’t take my life,” she describes with searing readability.

She might hear her father calling out for all of them. However his cries had been met with silence.

Razan’s household house is now a mound of rubble.

After we arrive there, we discover neighbours and associates clearing the rubble. Many are deeply traumatised.

Ammad, who’s sweeping particles outdoors the home reverse, tells me he noticed physique elements flung throughout the highway and into a close-by backyard, and there is blood on the partitions.

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It’s a deeply visceral and harrowing account of an assault that took everybody abruptly.

This can be a residential neighbourhood. It is thought the missile was sure for Haifa, greater than an hour away and residential to grease refineries.

However this time, with this missile, it fell on civilians. And took with it, futures.

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