A child and mother of ten years are a mourning of the death of nine of her young children after an Israeli air strike hit their house near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, according to hospital officials.
The husband of Dr. Alaa Al -Najjar, a doctor, was also seriously injured and is now in extensive care. Their only child surviving, according to Dr. Munir Al -Borsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza in Hamas.
“This is the reality that our medical staff in Gaza bears. Words are short in describing pain,” Al -Borsh said in a statement on Friday evening. “In Gaza, not only health care workers target – Israel’s aggression is farther, and erases entire families.”
The Nasser Medical Complex, where the carpenter, as a pediatric specialist in the Al -Tahr clinic, expressed its condolences in a statement, saying: “We are unable to speak, and our breaths suffocate in the face of the horror of this tragedy.”
When asked about the comment, the Israel Defense Forces told the NEWS that its aircraft on Friday “struck a number of suspects who were identified to work from a structure adjacent to the Israeli Defense Forces in the Khan UNES region” and that “the claim related to unmarried civilians are subject to review.”
The Israeli Defense Army added: “The Khan Yunus region is a dangerous war zone.” “Before the operations began there, the Israeli Defense Army evacuated civilians from this field for their safety.”
The mourners interact while attending the funeral of the Palestinians, who were killed in Israeli strikes, in Nasser Hospital, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 23, 2025.
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Dr. Ahmed Al -Fara, Head of Pediatrics and Obstetrics at an editorial clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, confirmed the incident, and ABC News told a telephone interview on Saturday that the Nagsar was at work when a speech on Friday afternoon that the strikes had hit Kizan Anjar, the area where the family of South Kohan Younis was.
“I felt in her heart that something happened to her family,” Al -Farara said. “I left and walked and tried to run without transfer.”
“Unfortunately, I discovered that her house was completely destroyed,” he added.
Among the children who were killed, five boys and four girls, with the youngest of the seven -month -old daughter and the 12 -year -old son, fled.
“They were completely burned,” he told ABC News.
Smoke rises from an air strike in the Israeli army, south of Khan Yunis, Gaza, on May 21, 2025.
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The 11 -year -old child, who survived, survived surgery and remains in a critical condition in the hospital, according to the escape. Al -Fara said that the father, the husband of the carpenter, is still entering the hospital in critical condition after surgeries and may have to amputate the leg.
When asked whether any humanitarian assistance had arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex, one of the largest hospitals in Gaza, Al -Fara News told them that they still have not received anything because what has been distributed so far has been distributed so far this week has been stolen by the armed gangs.
The World Food Program, the United Nations Food Assistance Branch, said that more than ten trucks of aid truck were looted in southern Gaza late on Thursday, when 2 million people face the war torn as “severe hunger and famine without immediate action.
The looting came a few days after Israel surrendered to global pressure and alleviating the siege for 11 weeks on all supplies entering neighboring Gaza, which the United Nations and other international assistance organizations that caused malnutrition and circumstances said widely said that it is likely to lead to famine.
The blockade concerned entered into force in early March, as the initial stage of the ceasefire ended for two months between armed rulers in Israel and Gaza’s enthusiasm.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the Israeli government is working with the United States to create aid distribution points in southern and central Gaza. But the plan, which is scheduled to start on Monday, faced criticism from the existing relief organizations that operate inside Gaza during the past 19 months.
The war broke out between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, after Hamas fighters entered Israel, killed 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 hostages. There are still 58 hostages held by Hamas, 20 of whom are supposed to be alive. Hamas is believed to carry the bodies of four Americans.
The war affected the Palestinians, as more than 53,000 were killed in Gaza since the conflict began, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Hamas. While statistics do not distinguish between military and non -military losses, women and children constitute tens of thousands of this number, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
-Abc news’ Sami, visit and Nasser att contributed to this report.
