A Gaza Doctor Went to Work to Save Lives. Hours Later, Her Children’s Burned Bodies Arrived
- On Friday, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at a hospital in southern Gaza when an Israeli airstrike struck her family’s residence in Khan Younis.
- Dr. Al-Najjar had left her ten children at home to care for patients amid Israel's military campaign triggered by the October 7 Hamas attack.
- The airstrike killed nine of her children, aged from seven months to 12 years, while one son survived with critical injuries along with her badly injured husband.
- Ahmad al-Farra, a doctor at Nasser Hospital, said al-Najjar continued working, checking on her husband and surviving son, Adam, age 11, who both underwent surgeries.
- The attack highlights the severe toll on Gaza's medical staff and civilians, as Gaza's health ministry reports over 53,000 deaths amid ongoing Israeli strikes and blockade.
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Israeli strike in Khan Younis kills nine children of doctor couple, reports say
Gaza’s civil defense agency reported Saturday that an Israeli airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed nine children belonging to a pair of married doctors. Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal stated that civil defense "crews transported the bodies of nine child martyrs, some of them charred, from the home of Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar. All were their children," he said, adding that the father and another son wer…
‘I am speechless’ says colleague as Gaza doctor’s family killed
We spoke to Dr Ahmmed Al-Farra, the head of pediatrics and maternity at the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, where Dr Alaa al-Najjar works. We started by asking him what he knows about the air strike that killed her children.
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