CrossFireArabia
Dr Alaa Al Najar’s world was simply turned upside down on that Friday morning when she heard the horrors.
One minute she had a family, in another they were all gone. She went hysterical, and understandably so, when she realized the batch of dead brought into the Al Nasser Hospital Complex where all her children.
That morning her husband Dr Hamdi Al Najjar brought her to hospital to start her morning shift and he went back to the house on the southern edge of Khan Younis.
Their world came to an end in an instant after he entered his house and when suddenly an Israeli missile appeared and struck the building, destroying the house and set it ablaze with its occupants.
There wasn’t anytime for anybody to evacuate. Nine of their 10 children were burned to death. As they were brought to hospital they were in a charred state, barely unrecognizable. The mother had only left an hour or so earlier.
Her oldest, Adam, was 12-years-old and the youngest was a baby of 7-months, next was a two-year-old toddler and a three-year-old. The baby and one of the toddlers remain under under the rubble of the house that suddenly crackled under the fire and thumped into the ground.
Shock. Dr Alaa, a pediatrician, knew of their death once they were taken out of the ambulance into the gurneys. Unbelievable, horror, a world that suddenly caved in. Adam, the eldest, and his father, Dr Al Najjar, were immediately taken to the ICU fighting for their lives.
Later, the Israeli army admitted that Friday morning they struck 100 different locations in Gaza with intense strikes. The killing of the family made much social media news of more strikes at different civilians and residential homes in Gaza.
