By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 24 May 2025 11:09 BST

"Dr Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the strip on Friday when she was shocked to find her own children and husband brought into the hospital.

The children - the eldest aged 12 and the youngest just six months - were severely burned in the bombing."

Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike

A Palestinian paediatrician received the charred bodies of seven of her children while on duty after an Israeli strike hit her home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

^{Maha Hussaini (Middle East Eye)}