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David__77

(24,508 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:17 AM Jun 2025

Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack

A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said.

Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.

Even by the terrible standards of the Gaza conflict, their deaths had shocked the international community.

Footage shared by the director of Gaza’s health ministry and verified by the Guardian showed the burnt, dismembered bodies of Najjar’s children being pulled from the rubble of their house near a petrol station as flames engulfed what remained of the family’s home.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/01/gaza-doctor-who-lost-nine-children-in-israeli-airstrike-dies-from-wounds-in-same-attack

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Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack (Original Post) David__77 Jun 2025 OP
Gaza snot Jun 2025 #1
Just heartbreaking Nanjeanne Jun 2025 #2
I guess this should be characterized as another casualty in the ethnic cleansing by warmonger Netanyahu. brush Jun 2025 #3
Israel has a right to exist, Bayard Jun 2025 #4
Well, yes. But Israel already exists and no one is trying to annihilate the only nuclear-armed nation in the ME. AloeVera Jun 2025 #5
Enough already mountain grammy Jun 2025 #6
100% Goddessartist Jun 2025 #8
I can totally understand your perspective. David__77 Jun 2025 #19
At least this is nothing like German Nazi throwing live children and babies into pits of burning bodies. spike jones Jun 2025 #7
Yeah, so what the IDF & Bibi are doing isn't SO bad... Seriously? Is that really the measurement you choose to use? Exp Jun 2025 #11
Sorry, I forgot the sarcasm symbol. spike jones Jun 2025 #13
I was wondering! nt Exp Jun 2025 #15
Fucking bastards. No forgiveness. Never forget. nt Exp Jun 2025 #9
I can't imagine the Israelis want this. Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #10
Netanyahu is a true Psychopath DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #14
Agreed. Buddyzbuddy Jun 2025 #16
Hey DENVERPOPS Jun 2025 #18
If 11 year-old Adam survives, I cannot imagine what will be in his heart. I know what would LoisB Jun 2025 #12
Good grief malaise Jun 2025 #17
Gazas health ministry Hamas. nt LexVegas Jun 2025 #20
Newsweek: " At Least 31 Dead After Israeli Troops Fired on Gaza Crowd, Witnesses Say" David__77 Jun 2025 #21
 

brush

(61,033 posts)
3. I guess this should be characterized as another casualty in the ethnic cleansing by warmonger Netanyahu.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:29 AM
Jun 2025

Kick him to the curb, Israel, you deserve a better, humane leader.

AloeVera

(4,000 posts)
5. Well, yes. But Israel already exists and no one is trying to annihilate the only nuclear-armed nation in the ME.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 12:40 PM
Jun 2025

Backed by the U.S. with the strongest military on the world.

The "Israel has a right to exist" slogan is always trotted out by Israel when it has done something heinous - or is about to. But if you think about it, that hasbara slogan is devoid of relevance, logic and sense and only serves to justify Israel's crimes.

But I agree nothing justifies this. However, we look at it from the moral, ethical perspective of outsiders. In Israeli minds and of their supporters, it is perfectly justified for the "greater good". How that is defined and made exclusive and restricted to one group only is the essence of the problem in the whole conflict.

That that one surviving little boy, deprived of all siblings and now a father too does not register within that "greater good" calculation.

Goddessartist

(2,176 posts)
8. 100%
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:48 PM
Jun 2025

It already exists. Continuous hasbara, like 40 beheaded babies and mass rape, not to mention the Hannibal Directive which wiped out the majority of the party goers.

spike jones

(1,994 posts)
7. At least this is nothing like German Nazi throwing live children and babies into pits of burning bodies.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:46 PM
Jun 2025

Exp

(768 posts)
11. Yeah, so what the IDF & Bibi are doing isn't SO bad... Seriously? Is that really the measurement you choose to use?
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:54 PM
Jun 2025

Really????


Buddyzbuddy

(2,137 posts)
10. I can't imagine the Israelis want this.
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 01:51 PM
Jun 2025

But I also couldn't imagine the Felon winning in 2016, let alone 2024.

That just shows I'm too much of an optimist when it comes to humanity. Or, at least I was.

Too many f.cking monsters running this world, supported by other monsters.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
14. Netanyahu is a true Psychopath
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:03 PM
Jun 2025

just like his counterparts here in the U.S. and Russia.........

Birds of a feather, flock together...........

And Trump enables Netanyahu to do this, because Trump is already planning a new TRUMP HOTEL in GAZA...........

The whole entire world is being over turned by a select few psychopaths and their CABALs

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
18. Hey
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 06:41 PM
Jun 2025

People have told me that MONEY IS THE ROOT TO ALL EVIL...........I always tell them GREED IS THE ROOT TO ALL EVIL.....

LoisB

(12,373 posts)
12. If 11 year-old Adam survives, I cannot imagine what will be in his heart. I know what would
Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:00 PM
Jun 2025

be in mine.

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