A Gaza doctor was at work. At home, nine of her 10 children were killed in an Israeli strike
Alaa Najjar, a paediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time and ran home to find her family's house on fire, Ahmad al-Farra, head of the hospital's paediatric department, said.
Najjar's husband was severely wounded and their only surviving child, an 11-year-old son, was in a critical condition after Friday's strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, Farra said.
The dead children ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old. Khalil Al-Dokran, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health Ministry, said two of the children remained under the rubble.
The children were among 79 people killed by Israeli strikes who have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible.
Israel's military in a statement said it struck suspects operating from a structure next to its forces, and described the area of Khan Younis as a 'dangerous war zone'. It said it had evacuated civilians from the area, and 'the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review'.
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Earlier on Saturday, a statement said Israel's air force struck over 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past day.
The Health Ministry said the new deaths brought the war's toll to 53,901 since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel in which some 1200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage, sparking the 19 months of fighting. The ministry said 3747 people had been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed the war on March 18 to pressure Hamas to accept different ceasefire terms. Its count doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants.
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