On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his household residence for a shift because the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six members of the family arrived while he was nonetheless on duty.
An Israeli airstrike struck his residence within the Al Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, the place a number of generations had been residing collectively, the physician mentioned.
“This is the family home where we live. My brother, two of my brother’s sons, my nephew’s wife, and two of their children were martyred,” Abu Salmiya advised NCS.
The strike on Abu Salmiya’s household residence killed six folks and injured seven others, together with the hospital director’s sister, niece and nephews, he mentioned.
NCS has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for remark on the goal of the strikes.
A video shared by the Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, confirmed a grief-stricken Abu Salmiya kneeling subsequent to the bodies of his members of the family on the hospital, nonetheless sporting his physician’s scrubs.
“We pray that God grants patience and strength to his heart and the hearts of his family,” Al-Bursh mentioned in a put up on social media.
Gaza’s civil protection mentioned they rescued 4 injured folks and recovered three bodies on the residence in Gaza’s northern seashore space.
“A missing person remains buried under the rubble. Our crews are trying to reach him and retrieve him,” the civil protection mentioned.
The newest assault come as international outcry intensifies over Israel’s makes an attempt to capture Gaza City. Tens of hundreds have been fleeing town, which has seen Israel demolishing high-rise buildings.
Israel says town, Gaza’s largest, stays a Hamas stronghold. The group’s navy wing issued a picture of the remaining Israeli hostages it’s holding, warning the incursion in Gaza City signifies that Israel has misplaced any probability of getting its hostages out of the territory.
More than 65,200 Palestinian folks in Gaza have been killed since October 7, 2023, in keeping with the most recent figures from the Palestinian well being ministry.
The United Nations and others have warned that the assault will worsen an already dire humanitarian disaster, with elements of the Gaza formally declared under famine.
This week, an unbiased United Nations inquiry concluded for the primary time that Israel has dedicated genocide towards Palestinians in Gaza, which Israel firmly denies.