A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said.
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.
Even by the terrible standards of the Gaza conflict, their deaths had shocked the international community.
Footage shared by the director of Gaza’s health ministry and verified by the Guardian showed the burnt, dismembered bodies of Najjar’s children being pulled from the rubble of their house near a petrol station as flames engulfed what remained of the family’s home.
Even worse for that 11 year old survivor boy. Almost makes me think he will be better off not surviving this. 😢
Mom is still alive, she was working when the house was bombed and the bodies were brought in. I hope he survives so they at least have each other.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
I am hurting so much for them, and every parent that lost a child, and every child that lost a parent. Being a parent and a child myself, these stories are heartbreaking. Unforgettable stories.
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
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