“One of the most heartbreaking tragedies: Israel Gaza War

IIn the early morning hours of Friday, as she did every day, Dr. Alaa al-Najar from her 10 children before leaving the house. The youngest, Sayden, six months old, still slept. And like every day that in Gaza and Israeli strikes that land only meters from their neighborhood in Khan Younis, Najjar made them at home without them.

But the 35 -year -old Najjar had little choice. One of Gaza's dwindling doctors, a prestigious pediatrician in the Nasser Medical Complex, had to go to the care of injured babies who had hardly survived Israeli attacks. She could never have imagined that this farewell from her family would be her last.

A few hours later, the charred bodies of seven of their children, who were killed by an Israeli air raid on Khan Younis, came to their hospital. Two more corpses, including Sayden, stayed under the ruins. Of her 10 children, only one with her father Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, also survived a doctor. Both are now in the hospital.

“It is one of the most heartbreaking tragedies since the beginning of the conflict,” said Mohammed Saqer, head of nursing at Nasser Hospital. “And it happened to a pediatrician who devoted her life to the rescue of children just to stole their own motherhood in a moment of fire and the deafening silence.”

The film material shared by the director of the Gaza Ministry of Health shows that the bodies of children, dismembered by the Guardian, are pulled by children from the ruins of the Najjar building near a petrol station, while the flames still match what the family house remained.

Ali al-Najar, 50, the older brother of Hamdi, Alaa's husband, said: “When I heard the house was bombarded, I instinctively hurried to my car and went to the place when I knew that my brother and his children were inside. On the other side I was on the other side and was bleeding out heavily and his arm was cut.

Ali called the medical team and took the two survivors to the hospital. Then he started looking for his nine missing nieces and nephews.

“The house was very difficult to clarify because the ceiling was stacked over itself. I started looking for in the house, hoping to find one of the children because I assumed that the bombings may have thrown them out of the house,” he said. “But then unfortunately the first burned body appeared. After we had completely released the fire, we found the rest of them – some goods mutilated and all burned.”

Alaa al-Najjar hurried to the place of the explosion when the rescuers pulled her daughter Revan's body out of her ruins. In tears she asked the rescuers to capture them one last time.

“Her [Revan’s] The body was completely burned from the upper part, nothing stayed with her skin or meat, “said Ali.

Najjar returned to the hospital to see her son Adam, 11, and her husband. Sources in the Nasser Hospital, which the children of the children individually transferred to the morgue, said her mother could not identify her, the burns were so bad.

The names of the children were Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eva, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.

“Alaa went to the Leichenhalle, held her children in her arms, recited the Koran over her and prayed for her,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, 53, the director of the children's building in the Nasser Medical Complex. “Other doctors around her collapse out of grief and anger, but Dr. Alaa remained composed. God sent the peace on her heart. After she had been buried, she went straight to think after her husband and son and began to take care of her.”

Najjar described the colleagues from the hospital as a committed, polite and ethical doctor who treats dozens of children and patients daily and at the same time looks after a large family.

“She was in constant concern for her children when she was in the hospital. When she heard that a house had been bombed in the neighborhood Qizan al-Najar, her mother's heart felt something wrong,” said Farra.

He said there were no words for their loss. “If someone wants to share an opinion, let them first imagine that they will happen to them – to suddenly lose every person who is connected to them.”

After Alaa was administered to the lifeless bodies of her seven children for the last time, she went into the ward where her surviving child was treated.

“Her husband suffered from serious injuries – brain damage and fractures caused by splinters as well as splinter wounds and fractures in the chest. He was placed on a ventilation device and equipped with medical tubes,” said Farra. '' The condition of her son was relatively better – his injuries ranged from moderately to heavy. “

The colleagues and friends of Najjar said their children held the Egyptian citizenship and that Alaa and Hamdi had planned to go to Egypt to Egypt and to record their children at the Al-Azhar University of Cairo.

The Israel defense workers said: “Yesterday, an IDF aircraft met a number of suspects that were identified from a structure alongside IDF troops in the area of ​​Khan Younis. The area of ​​Khan Younis is a dangerous war zone. Before the operations are started there.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, almost 54,000 Palestinians, including 16,503 children, were killed in Israeli attacks in the entire territory.

Farra said: “My only hope is that those who have been killed are not just names on paper. We were created just like any other person in this world. And like any other person, we have the right to live.”