In presence of destruction, Dr. Al-Najjar joins his nine children killed in Israeli strikes

GAZA, June 02 (YPA) – Her tears had not yet been dried from crying over the loss of her nine children, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home south of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, until Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar received another painful shock, in death of her husband.

Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital and Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar’s husband, has died has died from wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children.

While waiting for her husband’s health to improve, even slightly, following the targeting of the house and its inhabitants, fate decreed that Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar would joined his nine children on Saturday, May 31.

This tragedy that has befallen the Al-Najjar family was one of the most horrific stories of human suffering in Gaza and the world.

The family, including 10, was wiped out overnight in a brutal bombing that killed nine of the children of doctors Hamdi and Alaa, leaving only one child, Adam, who remains in the hospital. The father of the family was later martyred.

The parents had always dreamed of a bright future for their children, despite the war and siege. However, a bloody evening, laced with Israeli missiles, engulfed their home, charring the bodies of the nine children. Adam, who is suffering serious injuries, is becoming a living witness to the crime and its perpetrator.

At Nasser Hospital, Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar was doing her best to treat the wounds of children, men, and women who had been directly bombed by the occupation forces. While she was practicing her profession with the conscience of a doctor and the heart of a mother, a woman who had the right to be justified, the bodies of her nine children, who thier mother was not able to identify them, so bad were the burns, arrived at Nasser hospital, to live the tragedy in all its fury.

The children’s father, the doctor who cared for the patients, became a body undergoing one operation after another, hoping to return to his grieving wife and his surviving child, Adam.

But his severe injuries – brain damage and fractures caused by shrapnel, as well as the pain of losing his beloved children, pushed nine children, leaving behind a wife and a child.

Behind the numbers and tragic news in Gaza, there are human lives and families weaving the details of life with love, before the war machine uproots them. The Israeli massacres will be continued and families will be wiped out, while the Arabs are watching and denouncing without taking strong positions to stop this arrogant occupation.

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