Doctor working in hospital sees bodies of seven children brought in, two more die as they arrive and tenth is critical as Israel again targets home of vital workers
Gaza doctor Alaa al-Najjar was working to save civilians maimed in Israel’s relentless bombing of Gaza on Friday – after toiling in in destroyed hospitals for eighteen months, seeing thousands of injured and lifeless children rushed after bombing and sniping attacks – when she experienced the ultimate horror as her own family was brought into her emergency department after yet another targeted Israeli strike on the homes and families of doctors, emergency workers and journalists, often using its evil ‘Where’s Daddy’ AI system to bomb as parents arrive home.
Nine of her ten children were killed in a single bombing – seven dead when they were dug out of the rubble and two who died as they arrived at the hospital. Her tenth child is in critical condition after emergency surgery.
Their names were Yahia, Rakan, Lukman, Raslan, Jubran, Ev, Rivan, Sidra, Sidin. Little Adam is the sole survivor and with Gaza’s health system in ruins after eighteen months of Israel bombing hospitals and medical supplies he may not survive.
Volunteer doctor Tania Haj-Hassan told the BBC about the outrage and the wider context of ceaseless, targeted outrages as a BBC presenter insisted on putting the IDF’s excuses as if they are not lies like all the other lies and excuses debunked throughout this genocide. Watch to the end:
As Dr Haj-Hassan noted, the BBC continues to refuse to publish its own documentary about the situation of medical staff in Gaza:
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I have no adequate words to describe and I cannot even imagine what those poor parents must be feeling and suffering losing NINE of their beautiful children because of that terrorist state, supported by most of the ‘West’. The Israeli state is run by murderous bastards but Starmer and Lammy also have blood on their hands. Damn them all!
Just Thinking:
“Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State” and seems to be using ‘Lawfare’ in support of Israel’s murderous warfare on Palestine.
Question: Would I be subjected to Starmer’s Lawfare Repression simply by wearing a Palestine Badge or flying the Palestine Flag from my home?
Hope not – but – even if they wanted to – it’d be less likely if others did too. https://www.nwflags.co.uk/index.asp?function=CART#917e/embedded/m=and&q=Palestine
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The Debate That Isn’t Happening: “Gideon’s Chariots” vs. the Egyptian Plan
A comprehensive comparison between the plan to conquer Gaza and the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and the establishment of an alternative administration in the Strip
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/egyptian-initiative/
MMMm, thanks for link SteveH. Interesting.
I’d not come across the INSS before. Its ‘about’ page told me it supported the existence of Israel, which, of course at one time nearly everybody did.
In this BBC News article posted this afternoon (Sunday) it says the following and links to a BBC News article posted last Monday:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that its “aircraft struck a number of suspects who were identified operating from a structure adjacent to IDF troops in the area of Khan Younis”.
It said the Khan Younis area was a “dangerous war zone” and the IDF had told people to leave for their own safety. On Monday the IDF said people in Khan Younis governorate should leave ahead of an “unprecedented attack” in one of the largest such evacuation orders in recent months.
Father of nine children killed by Israeli strike still in critical condition
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8djlg3zq5o
So the IDF claim that its aircraft struck a number of suspects who were identified operating from a structure close to IDF troops in the area, and yet nothing has been reported about other people having been killed in the strike on the one hand, and all the news coverage indicates that it was a direct hit on the house – the home – of the doctor and her family on the other. The thing is this though, that the only way these alledged suspects could have been spotted is with a drone, and so therefore there has to be footage of these alledged suspects taken just before they were targeted. And if that’s the case – which I very much doubt – then the IDF should post the relevant footage for the whole world to see. And they should be required to do so.
It also says the following in the article:
Speaking after the strike that killed the nine al-Najjar children, an Israeli woman who was held hostage in Gaza told a rally in Tel Aviv that air strikes were what she feared most while in captivity.
Naama Levy – one of five female surveillance soldiers abducted during the 7 October attack led by Hamas – said that each time air strikes began she was convinced she would die. She said she feared for the lives of remaining hostages in Gaza.
Exactly, and obviously some of the hostages have been killed in airstrikes (and why on earth would Hamas Kill any of the hostages), as with the mother and her two children, the bodies/remains of whom Israel refused to accept when Hamas offered to return them in November, 2023. The following is from a wikipedia entry:
On 22 November 2023, Israel agreed to release 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons, in exchange for Hamas agreeing to release 50 Israeli women and children.[47] Shiri Bibas and her children were expected to be released, but were not released. On 29 November, Hamas’ armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, claimed that Shiri Bibas and her children had been killed in the Israeli bombing of Gaza.[48] Israel said that Hamas’s claims were unverified and could be part of their psychological warfare.[49][50][51]
On 30 November 2023, Hamas offered to release Yarden Bibas along with the bodies of his wife and sons. This offer was confirmed by Israeli officials and Arab diplomats.[12] Israel refused, demanding that living female hostages be returned before the dead bodies.[12] On the same day, Hamas also claimed that Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas had been killed by Israeli airstrikes before the truce went into effect.[13] The IDF responded that “Hamas is wholly responsible for the security of all hostages”.
It’s not clear whether Hamas were offering to release Yarden and the bodies of his wife and sons as well as 50 Israeli women and children, or whether they would be included as part of the 50, but if it was the former, then there was no legitimate reason for Israel to have refused the offer.
In an article Jonathan Cook posted four days ago he said the following (and linked to a Middle East Eye article from May 14th with the details):
A survey of the world’s leading genocide scholars published last week by the Dutch newspaper NRC found that all conclusively agreed Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Most think the genocide has reached its final stages.
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-05-22/starmer-gaza-blood-door/
I did a thorough search and not one single MSM news outlet in the UK reported about it. Now if it had been in relation to Russia….. But I did happen to come across this article in The National in the list of results:
‘Evidence does not show genocide in Gaza,’ Labour lawyers argue
THE evidence “does not support” conclusions that a genocide has happened or is happening in Gaza, UK Government lawyers have reportedly argued – despite Labour Minister’s claims that any determination of genocide is for judges to decide.
Well they were hardly gonna say that the evidence DID support genocide were they, and for a variety of reasons of course.
See below for link
Link:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25162823.evidence-not-show-genocide-gaza–labour-lawyers-argue/
Sadly
“Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar has died from injuries sustained in the Israeli airstrike that killed his nine children in Khan Yunis, as military operations intensify across southern Gaza.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dr-hamdi-al-najjar-dies-from-wounds-after-airstrike-that-killed-his-nine-children/