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She went to the hospital to save lives as a doctor, hours later the bodies of her murdered children arrive

She went to the hospital to save lives as a doctor, hours later the bodies of her murdered children arrive

Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home and went to work in the emergency room of the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip.

A few hours later, the bodies of seven children – most of them severely burned – arrived at the same hospital.

They were her children, killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted their home.


It is known that the oldest child was 12 years old, the youngest only three.

While the bodies of two other children – a seven-month-old baby and a two-year-old – still remain buried under the rubble.

Only one child survived and he was seriously injured, writes CNN, the Telegraph reports.

The doctor's husband, also a doctor, was also seriously injured.

Munir al-Barsh, the director general of the Gaza Health Ministry, said that Dr. Najjar's husband had just returned home when the site was attacked.

"Nine of their children were killed: Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eva, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra," al-Barsh said, adding that her husband is in intensive care.

“This is the reality that our healthcare workers in Gaza face every day. Words cannot describe the pain. In Gaza, it is not just healthcare workers who are being targeted – the Israeli aggression is wiping out entire families,” the director said.

It is reported that Najjar continued to work even after losing her children, occasionally checking in on her husband and only surviving child, 11-year-old Adam.

The father and son have undergone two surgeries and are still receiving treatment. /Telegraph/