9 children of the doctor pair killed in Israeli strike – DW – 24.05.2025

The Gaza civil protection authority said that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed nine of the ten children of a married doctor couple on Friday.

The agency's spokesman, Mahmud Bassal, said on Saturday that civil defense “transported the corpses of nine children's market rangers, some of them, from Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar and his Dr. Alaa al-Najar, all of her children.”

In an explanation, Israel's military said that it was a suspect who worked from a structure near his armed forces and described the area of ​​Khan Younis as a “dangerous zone of war”.

The military said that it had evacuated civilians from the region and that “the claim for countless civilians was examined”.

What do we know about the incident?

Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatrician in the Nasser Hospital, was on duty when she ran home and found her family's house, said Ahmad Al-Farra, head of the hospital's pediatric department, the associated press.

Munier Alboursh, General Director of the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-led Gaza, said on X that the strike had led his wife to work after Hamdi al-Najjar.

“Just a few minutes after his return home, a rocket met her house,” he said, adding that the father was “in the intensive care unit”.

Farra said that the couple's only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in a critical condition after the strike. The dead children ranged at the age of seven months to 12 years.

Germany's anti -Semitism boss urges the debate about the support of Israel

The youngest strike in Gaza comes, since European districts such as Great Britain and France are increasingly critical of the Israeli military operations there.

Felix Klein, the German government's anti -Semitism Commissioner, told that of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung While the protection of Israel and the defense of his right to exist for German politics is of fundamental importance, support can only go so far.

“We have to do everything in our power to preserve Israel and Jews worldwide,” he said. “But we also have to make it clear that this does not justify everything.”

Protecting Israel's security and supporting its interests in international organizations is one of the “State Radio” ('reason of the state'). After the Holocaust during the Second World War, in which 6 million Jews were killed, politics is associated with the historical responsibility of Germany towards Israel.

Israel started his military campaign in Gaza in response to a Hamas terrorist attack on South Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas' attack on Israel killed around 1,200 people, with Hamas and other Palestinian groups also taking 251 hostages.

According to the Gaza health authorities, almost 54,000 people died in Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks. Although Israel and the United States have criticized this number of death fees, the UN and other international corporation considered the figures of the Ministry of Health in Gaza to be generally reliable.

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic. A country that occupies an area must ensure that the population is sufficiently fed that aid goods come through and that medical care can take place,” said Klein.

He emphasized that Israel is entitled to defend himself against Hamas, which he accused of “genocidal hate”, but he questioned the “proportionality” of Israel's military action.

Published by: Wesley Dockery