Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack
by Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in from World news | The Guardian on (#6XNVF)
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in Khan Younis
A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said.
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.
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