While the world watches the unfolding genocide in Gaza in silence, the heart-wrenching stories are becoming routine as the Palestinians gather the body parts of their shredded children after every Israeli airstrike and wait for the next tragedy.
Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser medical complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the Palestinian territory on Friday when she received the charred bodies of nine of her children killed by a strike in Khan Younis. The eldest of the children was 12 and the youngest was just six months-old.
One of her children, according to Nasser hospital, was severely wounded but survived.
Footage of the horrific scene shows bodies of children being pulled from the rubble of the building near a petrol station in Khan Younis. The news was confirmed by the hospital in Khan Younis where Najjar works, according to the BBC. Her husband had just returned home after accompanying her to work when the building was struck by Israeli airstrikes.
The airstrike occurred moments after her husband returned from dropping her at the hospital, sparking widespread grief, outrage, and disbelief among Palestinians and international observers. According to medical officials, the strike hit a residential home without prior warning.
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“This is unbearably cruel,” said Dr. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon volunteering at Nasser Hospital. Dr. Groom, who operated on Adam, recalled that the boy arrived with his left arm nearly severed and his body riddled with shrapnel. “His mother dedicated her life to saving children. She couldn’t save her own.”
