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A pediatrician and mother of ten years mourns the death of nine of her little children after an Israeli air raid met her house near Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip on Friday on Friday.
The husband of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, also a doctor, was seriously wounded and is now in the intensive care unit. According to Dr. Munir al-Bursh, General Director of the Hamas-led Gaza Ministry of Health, was also injured her only surviving child.
“This is the reality that our medical staff in Gaza bears. The words are not fulfilled in the description of the pain,” said Al-Bursh in a statement on Friday evening. “In Gaza, not only the healthcare employees have addressed – Israel’s aggression continues and deletes entire families.”
The Nasser Medical Complex, in which Al-Najjar works as a pediatric specialist in the Al-Tahrir Clinic, expressed condolences in a statement and said: “We are speechless and our breaths suffocate in view of the horror of this tragedy.”
When asked about a comment, the Israeli defense forces ABC News announced on Friday that he “met a number of suspects that were identified from a structure alongside IDF troops in the area of Khan Yunis” and that “the right to damage to unpopular civilians” is checked “.
“The area of Khan Yunis is a dangerous war zone,” added the IDF. “Before the IDF begins with the operations there, the IDF evacuated civilians from this area for their own security.”
Mourners react when they take part in the funeral of the Palestinians in Israeli strikes in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 23, 2025.
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Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, head of pediatrics and obstetrics in the Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, confirmed the incident and announced ABC News in a telephone interview on Saturday that Al-Najjar had hit the area in which her families lived south of Khan Younis.
“She felt something happened to her family from her heart,” said Al-Trära. “She went and went and tried to run without transport.”
“Unfortunately, she found that her house was completely destroyed,” he added.
Among the children killed were five boys and four girls, the youngest were a seven-month-old daughter and the oldest of a 12-year-old son, said Al-Farra.
“They were completely burned,” he told ABC News.
On May 21, 2025, smoke rises from an Israeli army that rises south of Khan Younis, Gaza.
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According to Al-Farra, the one child who survived, Al-Najjar’s 11-year-old son had to be subjected to two operations and remained in a critical condition in the hospital. The father, the husband of al-Najjar, remains to the hospital in a critical condition even after operations and may have to leave a leg amputated, said Al-Trära.
When asked whether a humanitarian aid had reached the Nasser Medical Complex, one of the largest hospitals in Gaza, Al-Carra told ABC News that they have not received anything yet, because they have been stolen only a little help this week by armed gangs.
The World Food Program, the United Nations’ food aid, said that more than a dozen of its auxiliary trucks were looted in southern Gaza late Thursday when 2 million people were exposed to “extreme hunger and famine without immediate measures”.
The looting came just a few days after Israel died of global pressure and left his 11-week blockade on all supplies in the neighboring Gaza Strip, which the United Nations and other international aid organizations caused by widespread malnutrition and conditions for famine.
The auxiliary blockage came into force at the beginning of March when the initial phase of a two -month ceasefire between Israel and the militant rulers of Gaza, Hamas, had expired.
The Israeli government is working with the United States to build the sales points in the south and the central Gaza, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday. However, the plan that begins on Monday was exposed to established aid organizations that have been working in the Gaza Strip for 19 months.
The war between Israel and Hamas broke out on October 7, 2023 after the Hamas fighter Israel had entered and killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages. There are still 58 hostages from Hamas, 20 of whom are probably alive. It is believed that Hamas holds the corpses of four Americans.
The war has heavily burdened the Palestinians, with over 53,000 in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict, according to the Health Ministry of Hamas. While statistics do not distinguish between military and non-military victims, women and children make up tens of thousands of this number, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
-Abc news’ Samy Zayara and Nasser Atta contributed to this report.