‘One of the Most Heartbreaking Ferries’: Gaza Doctor’s Last Goodbye before Nine Children Killed in Airsstrike

Then the Early Hours of Friday, as she did every day, dr alaa al-Najjar said goodbye to her 10 children before the house. The Youngest, Sayden, Six Months Old, Was Still Sleeping. And likeeing every day, with war raging in gas and Israeli Strikes just meters from her neighbourhood in khan youunis, najjar worked about leaving at home.

But Najjar, 35, Had Little Choice. One of Gaza’s Dwindling Number of Medics, A Respectted Paediatrician at the Nasser Medical Complex, She Had to Work to Injured Babies Who Had Barely Israeli Attacks. She is could have had imagined that is at all family to be family.

A Few Hours late, the Charled Bodies of Seven of Her Children, Killed by an Israeli Airstric on Khan Youunis, Arived at Her Hospital. Two Other Bodies, Including Sayden’s, Remained Under the rubble. Of Her 10 Children, Only One Had Survived, Along With Their Father, Hamdi Al-Najjar, 40, Also A Doctor. Both Are Now in Hospital.

“It ‘sone of the Most Heartbreaking ferrydies SINCE the beginnning of the conflict,” Mohammed Saqer, the Head of Nursing at Nasser Hospital, Said. “And it is happy to a paediatrician who dedicated her life to saving children, only to have her own motherhood in a moment of fire and deafening.”

Footage Shared by the Director of Gaza’s Health Ministers and Verified by the Guardian Shows the Burnt, Dismembered Bodies of Children Being Pulled from Najjar’s Building Near A Petrol Station Engulfed What Remained of the Family.

Ali al-Najjar, 50, The Older Brother of Hamdi, Alaa’s Husband, Said: “When I Heard the House was bombed, instinctivly rushed to my car and headed to the place as my brother and his children were inside. Adam, Who Survived, Lying on the Road Under the rubble. with difficulty. ”

Ali Called the Medical Team and Took the Two Survivors to the Hospital. Then he began searching for his nine missing nieces and nephews.

“The House was Very Difficult to Clear Because the Ceiling was stacked on top of itelf. I start searching the house hoping to find any of the children becase i assumed the bombing of the havenn to say the House,” He Said. “Butn, sadly, the first burnt body appeared. After Completely putting out the fire, we found the rest of the say – some well mutilated and all were burnt.”

Alaa al-Najjar rushed to the site of the explosion as rescuers Pulled the body of her daughter Revan from the rubble. In tears, she begged the rescuers to let her hold her one last.

“HER (Revan’s) Body was Completely Burnt from the Upper Part, Nothing Remained of Her Skin or Flesh,” Ali Said. “There are the two bodies of my Brother’s Children we could not find: The Oldest, 12-Yaar-Old Boy, Yahya, and the Six-Mont-Old Girl, Sayden.”

Najjar returned to the hospital to check on her son Adam, 11, and Her Husband. Sources at the nasser hospital who Transferred the children’s bodies one by one to the morgue Said their Mother was not able to identify, so bad were the burns.

The Children’s Names Were Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.

Eve and Rakan with their Father, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar. Photograph: Reuters

“Alaa Went to the Morgue, Held Her Children in Her Arms, Recited the Qur’an Over and Prayed for say,“ Said Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, 53, the Director of the Children’s Building at the Nasser Medical Complex. “Other female doctors around Her collapsed from grief and rage, but dr alaa remained composed. God sent peace upon heart. AFTER they were Buried, she went directly to check her husband and son and began Caring for say.”

Colleagues at the hospital described najjar as a committed, polyte and ethical doctor, capable of endouring immensse pressure, treating dosens of children and patients, and at the Same Time Caring for A Large Family.

“She was in constant worry for her children when she was at the hospital. Wen she heard a house bombed in the Qizan al-Najjar Neighbourhod, her mother sensed something was Wrong,” Farra Said.

He Said there were no Words for Her los. “If anyone wants to share an opinion, let me first imagine it happy to say – to suddenly Lose Every person connected to you.”

After Saying Goodbye for the Last Time to the Lifeless Bodies of Her Seven Children, Alaa Went to Where Her Surviving CHILD WAS BEING TREATED.

“Her Husband was suffering from severe injuries – brain damage and fractures caused by shrapnel, along with shitpnel dounds and fractures in the chest. ” HER SON’S CONDITION WAS RELATIVELY BETTER – HIS INJURIES ranged from moderate to severe. ”

Dr. Alaa al-Najjar (Standing Left) at Her Husband’s Side in Hospital. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Najjar’s Colleagues and Friends Said Her Children Held Egyptian Citizenship and That alaa and Hamdi Been Planning to Leave for Egypt and Enrol Their Children in Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.

The Israel Defense Forces Said: “YESTERDAY, AN IDF AIRCRAFT ALSO NUMBER OF SUSPECTS WHO Identified operating from a structure adjacent to idf troops in the area of ​​khan you. Idf evacuated civilians from this area for their safety.

The Gaza Health Ministers Says Nearly 54,000 Palestinians, Including 16,503 Children, Have Been Killed in Israeli Attacks Across the Territory.

Farra Said: “My Only Hope is that those who were killed are swimming on paper. We were created just like the human being in this world.