Father of 9 youngsters killed by Israeli strike in Gaza nonetheless in crucial situation

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The husband of a Palestinian physician in Gaza whose youngsters had been killed in an Israeli strike on Friday stays in crucial situation, in line with the hospital treating him.

Hamdi al-Najjar's "life stays at risk", Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian physician working at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, instructed the BBC.

An Israeli strike killed 9 of the couple's 10 youngsters on Friday and left him and the couple's 11-year-old son injured.

The Israeli navy has mentioned the incident is underneath overview.

On Sunday the Hamas-run well being ministry mentioned Israeli air strikes had killed 22 folks since daybreak, principally within the central and southern areas of the territory.

Hamdi al-Najjar - additionally a physician - sustained vital accidents to his mind, lungs, proper arm, and kidney, Dr Angelova-Chee mentioned.

The hospital is "doing every little thing we will for him", she added.

The couple's surviving son Adam was additionally injured. Dr Angelova-Chee mentioned her colleagues had instructed her he was doing "moderately nicely".

Dr Alaa al-Najjar was working at Nasser hospital when the Israeli assault occurred. Video shared by Well being Ministry Director Dr Muneer Alboursh and verified by the BBC confirmed small charred our bodies being lifted from rubble.

The 9 youngsters - Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra - had been aged between only a few months outdated and 12.

Her colleague confronted "unspeakable struggling", Dr Angelova-Chee mentioned.

Proper now Alaa's "precedence is her household", she mentioned, including: "She's not the one one who faces this, many households are in the identical place."

"All people is absolutely shocked as a result of this continues already 18 months and it is compounded by fixed risk of loss of life, fixed relocations and evacuations," she mentioned.

The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned on Saturday that its "plane struck a variety of suspects who had been recognized working from a construction adjoining to IDF troops within the space of Khan Younis".

"It's clear how a lot she is struggling", Dr Milena Angelova-Chee mentioned about her colleague

It mentioned the Khan Younis are was a "harmful battle zone" and the IDF had instructed folks to depart for their very own security. On Monday the IDF mentioned folks in Khan Younis governorate ought to go away forward of an "unprecedented assault" in one of many largest such evacuation orders in current months.

Some Palestinians instructed the BBC that they had not left as a result of "as a result of there isn't a place to go". In line with the UN, about 81% of the territory is now both topic to Israeli evacuation orders or situated in militarised "no-go" zones.

Israel resumed air strikes and floor operations on 18 March and these have since killed 3,785 Palestinians, the well being ministry says.

Talking after the strike which killed the 9 al-Najjar youngsters, an Israeli lady who was held hostage in Gaza instructed a rally in Tel Aviv that air strikes had been what she feared most whereas in captivity.

Naama Levy - one in every of 5 feminine surveillance troopers kidnapped in the course of the 7 October assault led by Hamas - mentioned that every time air strikes started she was satisfied she would die. She mentioned she feared for the lives of remaining hostages in Gaza.

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Israel additionally imposed a complete blockade on Gaza on 2 March that lasted 11 weeks earlier than it allowed restricted help to enter the territory within the face of warnings of famine and mounting worldwide outrage.

Israeli navy physique Cogat mentioned on Saturday morning that 388 vehicles carrying help had entered Gaza since Monday. The UN says far more help - between 500 to 600 vehicles a day - is required.

The World Meals Programme (WFP) instructed the BBC that no extra vehicles had entered Gaza on Saturday, and there had been a halt within the distribution of bread.

"As a result of restricted provides reaching Gaza and the elevated stress on working bakeries from giant crowds, bakery house owners have raised vital security considerations concerning the security of services, staff, and beneficiaries," a spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.

"WFP agrees with and totally helps the collective determination of the bakery house owners to close down in a single day on 24 Might attributable to extreme safety threats."

The spokesperson added that "operations within the present imposed circumstances usually are not viable".

Dr Angelova-Chee mentioned her colleagues on the hospital had been working "hungry", with one telling her on Saturday that he had solely a pair extra small packets of date biscuits left to eat.

Israel has mentioned the blockade was meant to place stress on Hamas to launch the hostages the Palestinian armed group Hamas continues to be holding in Gaza. Israel additionally accuses Hamas of stealing provides, which the group has denied.

Israel launched a navy marketing campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border assault on 7 October 2023, through which about 1,200 folks had been killed and 251 others had been taken hostage.

At the least 53,939 folks, together with no less than 16,500 youngsters, have been killed in Gaza since then, in line with the territory's well being ministry.