Nine of the ten children of the Gazast doctor who were killed in Israeli air raid

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Dr. Alaa al-Najar left her ten children at home on Friday when she worked in the emergency room in the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza.

Hours later, the bodies of seven children – most of them burned poorly – arrived in the hospital, according to the Gazastinner. You were Dr. Najjar's own children who were killed in an Israeli air raid in her family's house, said the Gaza civil defense. The bodies of her other two children-a 7-month-old and two-year-olds caught under the rubble.

Only one of her ten children – critically injured – survived. Dr. Najjar's husband, himself a doctor, was also seriously injured in the strike.

Civil defense and the Ministry of Health say that the family's house was targeted by an Israeli air raid in a quarter of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

In response to a CNN request for comments, the Israeli military said that planes had “hit a number of suspects that were identified by a structure alongside IDF troops in the area of ​​Khan Yunis”. It was said that it was the review of the claim that the civilian population had been killed.

Civil defense in Gaza published graphics video from the strike location. It showed doctors who raised an injured man on a stretcher when other first aiders try to extinguish a fire that the house devours. They recover the charred remains of several children from the rubble and wrap them into white leaves.

Munir al-Barsh, General Director of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said that the husband of Dr. Najjar had just returned home when the house was beaten.

“Nine of her children were killed: Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Geban, Eva, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra,” Barsh said on X. He said her husband was in intensive care.

“This is the reality that our medical staff in Gaza bears. The words are in the description of the pain. In Gaza stripes, not only are the health care employees – Israel's aggression continues and deletes entire families,” said Barsh.

Ahmad al-Farra, doctor in the Nasser Medical Complex, told CNN that Dr. Najjar continued to work, although she lost her children while regularly the condition of her husband and sole surviving child Adam, Adam, who was 11 years old.

Both the father and the son were subjected to two operations in the hospital and are still being treated, said Farra.

Youssef Abu al-Reesh, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, said Dr. Najjar left her children at home to “fulfill their duty and calling against all the sick children who have no place besides the Nasser Hospital”.

Reesh said when he arrived in the hospital, he had seen that she was “big, calm, patient, composed, with eyes full of acceptance. They could hear nothing from her, but quietly murmur (glorification of God) and (forgiveness sought forgiveness).”

Dr. Najjar, 38, is a pediatrician, but like most doctors in Gaza, she works in the emergency room during the rush of Israel.