Gaza (Quds News Network)- Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar, a Palestinian physician, has died from injuries he sustained when Israel bombed his family home in southern Khan Younis. His death comes days after the same attack killed nine of his ten children.
His wife, Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, a pediatrician, had just left their home to resume her shift at Nasser Hospital when the Israeli missile hit. Moments earlier, Hamdi had returned home.
The airstrike wiped out nearly the entire family. Their nine children—Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gubran, Eve, Revan, Sadin, Luqman, and Sidra—were killed instantly.
Only one child, Adam, survived. He remains hospitalized with injuries.
Dr. Alaa, now a grieving mother and widow, was forced to identify her children’s burned bodies in the same hospital where she treats Gaza’s wounded.
Israel has repeatedly targeted Gaza’s medical community. Over the past 20 months, doctors, nurses, and emergency workers have been killed, kidnapped, or injured. Airstrikes have hit hospitals, clinics, and ambulances.
The Al-Najjar family tragedy has become a symbol of this systematic targeting.
International human rights organizations continue to call for independent investigations. But Gaza’s healthcare workers say they are running out of time—and colleagues.
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