Nine of the 10 children of a doctor killed in a missile attack on Israel at their home in Gauzewho also left her only child who survived heavily injured and her husband in critical condition.
Israel’s air raid on Gaza hit the doctor’s house, Alaa Al Najjar, and killed nine of her 10 children, reports the hospital where she works in the town of Han Younes. The pediatrician at Al Tahrir Clinic of the Nasser Medical Complex was at work during her home attack on Friday (24.05.2025).
Nasser Hospital said one of the children of Alaa Al-Najjar and her husband were injured but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said she has survived her 11 -year -old surviving boy.
A video shared by the Director of the Ministry of Health governed by Hamas showed small burnt bodies of children being recovered from the ruins.
Rescuers are looking in a damaged building, shouting when they find a corpse, before the children get out one by one and wrap their relics in bags.
The pediatrician’s wife, Hamdi al -Najar, who is also a doctor, was taken to a stretcher and then entered an ambulance.
“Alaa Al-Najjar saw with her own eyes the charred bodies of her seven children recovered under the ruins-two remain missing-and all of them while having a service at the Nasser Medical Complex.
The shocking details narrated by Alaa Al-Najjar sketch one of the most stunning tragedies that have happened to a pediatrician who dedicated her life to rescuing children, just to steal her motherhood in a moment of fire and deafening silence, ”writes her child.
The older of their children was only 12 years old, according to Munir Albouros, general manager of the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is governed by Hamas.
In a general announcement on Saturday, Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) said they hit more than 100 targets across Gaza on Thursday.
The Ministry of Health said at least 74 people were killed by the Israeli army (IDF) in the last 24 hours.