Nine children of a doctor among 79 people killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza
NINE children of a doctor were among 79 people to die in an Israeli air strike.
Dr Alaa al-Najjar's only surviving youngster — an 11-year-old lad — was last night fighting for life along with his dad in Gaza.
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British surgeon Graeme Groom operated on the doctor's surviving lad, Adam, who is in a critical condition
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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza
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An explosion near the Israel-Gaza border
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She was at a hospital treating victims of other Israeli attacks when the strike turned her nearby home into an inferno.
The paediatric department head ran to the blazing rubble of her home to find that her nine children — aged from seven months to 12 — had been killed.
British surgeon Graeme Groom operated on her surviving lad, Adam, who is in a critical condition.
Dr al-Najjar's husband, Hamdi, also a doctor, suffered a serious head wound in Friday's strike in the city of
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Mr Groom said it was 'unbearably cruel' that a mother who spent years caring for children should lose almost all her own in one strike.
He added: 'Our little boy could survive but we don't know about his father.'
Israel's military said it blitzed suspects operating from a building near the hospital and hit 100 targets in all.
Israeli military says it began extensive ground operations in northern and southern Gaza
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