Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in an Israeli blow died of injuries

Palestinian doctor, whose children were killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza on May 23, died of injuries suffered in the same attack, health officials say.

Dr. Hamdi Al-Najar, 40, had just returned from the dropping out of his wife, Dr. Alaa Al-Nadzhar, at Nasser Hospital, where the couple worked, and they both worked, and they worked, When their home in Khan Einnis was hit. Nine of their children were killed while the 10th was seriously injured.

Hamdi was treated at a hospital for brain and internal injuries, but died on Saturday. Alaa and their 11-year-old son Adam, who remains in hospital, are the only survivors of the family.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a time that the incident was being examined.

The couple founded a private medical compound in Khan Einnis, of which Hamdi was the head. His brother, Dr. Ali Al-Najar, described him as a loving father who would have a tendency for poorer patients for free.

Their children Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Saydeen, Luqman and Sidra were killed in the attack. The largest was 12 years old and the youngest six months, according to local media.

Hamdi suffered significant injuries to the brain, lungs, right hand and kidneys at the strike, said Dr. Milena Angela-Chi, a Bulgarian doctor working at a hospital in Nasser last week on the BBC last week.

Grame Groom, a British surgeon working at the hospital that operates on the surviving son Adam, told the BBC that he was “unbearably cruel” that his mother Alaa, who spends years, caring for children as a pediatrician, could lose almost all her own in one stroke.

He said that “Adam’s left hand is almost for hanging, he was covered with injuries of fragments and there are several significant tears.”

“Since both of his parents are doctors, he looked among the privileged group in Gaza, but as we lifted him at the operating table, he felt much younger than 11.”

The Italian government on Thursday proposed to treat Adam after appealing his uncle, Dr. Ali Al-Nadzhar, who told the Italian newspaper in the La Republic that the Nasser hospital was bad to treat him.

“He has to be taken immediately, to a real hospital outside the Gaza Strip. I ask the Italian government to do something, to take it, the Italians are saving it,” he said.

“The Italian government has expressed its willingness to transfer the severely wounded boy to Italy,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that he was studying the feasibility of the proposal.

At that time, the IDF said in response to reports of the strike that “a plane struck several suspects identified by IDF forces as operating in a building near troops in the area of ​​Khan Eunice, a dangerous battle zone that was evacuated to civilians in advance for their protection.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 54 418 people were killed in Gaza during the war, according to the health ministry in the territory.