Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from injuries

Health officials say that a Palestinian doctor was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on May 23, who was injured in the same attack.

Dr. Hamdi, 40, had just returned to the overthrow of his wife, Dr. Al -Ela Al -Najjar, off Nasser Hospital, where the couple worked, When their house was hit in Khan Yunis. Nine of their children were killed, while the tenth was seriously injured.

Hamdi was treated in the hospital due to brain and internal injuries, but he died on Saturday. Alaa and their 11 -year -old son Adam, who is still in the hospital, are the only survivors of the family.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said at the time that the accident was being reviewed.

The couple established a special medical compound in Khan Yunis, and Hamdi was the head. His brother, Dr. Ali Al -Najjar, described him as a love father who tends to the patients who put them in the poor for free.

Their children were killed by Yahya, Rakan, Roslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Siden, Lukman and Sayeda in the attack. He was 12 years old and six months old, according to local media.

Dr. Melina Angelova, a Bulgarian doctor working in Nasser Hospital, was injured last week, he was severely wounded in his brain, lungs, right arm and kidneys in the strike.

Grame GROOM, a British surgeon working in the hospital who was working on the remaining son, Adam, BBC, told “incomparable harsh” that his mother Alaa, who spent years in caring for children as a pediatrician, might lose almost all in one blow.

He said, “Adam’s left arm was about to knock, and was covered with fragments and had several great ruptures.”

“Since his parents are doctors, he seemed to be among the distinguished group inside Gaza, but when we raised him on the operating table, he felt less than 11 years old.”

On Thursday, the government of Italy presented the treatment of Adam after an appeal from his uncle, Dr. Ali Al -Najjar, who told La Repubblya newspaper in Italy that Nasser Hospital was not equipped to treat it.

“It should be transferred immediately, to a real hospital, outside the Gaza Strip. I begged the Italian government to do something, accompanied by, rescuing the Italians,” he said.

“The Italian government has expressed its willingness to transfer the boy with serious injuries to Italy,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, adding that it was studying the feasibility of the proposal.

At that time, the Israeli Defense Army said in response to reports of the strike that “a plane hit many of the suspects who were identified by the Israeli Defense Army forces as being working in a building near the forces in the Khan Yunis area, a dangerous combat area that was evacuated from civilians to protect them.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

At least 54,418 people were killed in Gaza during the war, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.