9 children of Gaza doctors were killed in Israeli strike
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Health officials say

Health officials said the child of a Palestinian doctor was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on May 23 and was injured in the same attack.

Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar, 40, had just dropped the Nasser Hospital from his wife, Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, when the couple worked at Khan Younis's home. Their nine children were killed, while the tenth was seriously injured.

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

The IDF said at the time that it was reviewing the incident.

The couple established a private medical compound in Khan Younis, where Hamdi is the head. His brother, Dr. Ali al-Najjar, described him as a loving father who tends to be free of charge.

Their children Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Saydeen, Luqman and Sidra were all killed in the attack. According to local media reports, the eldest son is 12 years old, the youngest is six months old.

Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor who worked at Nasser Hospital last week, suffered significant damage to his brain, lungs, right arm and kidneys during a strike.

Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in a hospital who works on his surviving son Adam, told the BBC that his mother, Alaa, spent several years in a strike and that his mother, Alaa, could lose nearly all of her own children.

He said Adam's left arm was about to hang up, and he was injured by fragments and his cut was very severe. ”

“Since his parents were both doctors, he seemed to be one of the privileged groups in Gazane, but when we carried him to the surgical table, he felt 11 years younger.”

Getty Images Palestinians gathered to pray for the funeral of Palestinian father Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, who lost nine children in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis. Getty Images

Mourners gathered at Dr. Al-Najjar's funeral on Sunday

After the Italian government filed an appeal on Thursday to treat Adam, uncle Ali Al-Najjar, he told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Nasser hospital was not enough to treat him.

He said: "He needs to be taken away immediately, in a real hospital outside the Gaza Strip. I begged the Italian government to do something, take him there, and the Italians saved him."

"The Italian government expressed willingness to transfer the seriously injured boy to Italy," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that it is studying the feasibility of the proposal.

The IDF said at the time that the strike reported: "A plane attacked several suspects identified by IDF troops as operating near the Khan Younis area troops, a dangerous combat zone where civilians had been evacuated early.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza on October 7, 2023 in response to Hamas' cross-border attacks, in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage.

According to the Hamas Party Health Ministry in the region, at least 54,418 people died in Gaza during the war.