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.
Imagine being 11 and having your entire family of 10 other people die at once. Hopefully the hospital he’s staying at isn’t bombed.
It’s like they’re trying to create a new generation of terrorists that despise them
Ugh … as if I didn’t already know Netanyahu literally helped keep Hamas in power so people would be less sympathetic to Palestine.
We have some really disgusting people running this world these days. I thought humanity would figure things out eventually but we seem wholly incapable of learning anything from past attrocities for longer than a few generations
Iirc, it’s the same hospital his mom, who is also a doctor, works at. So they have each other at least.
Damn, both parents are doctors? Wow. I wish the family the best.
Many and many large family had the same fate. Israel evilness has no limit