Boy and baby brother pulled alive from rubble after Israeli strike
NewsFeed Boy and baby brother pulled alive from rubble after Israeli strike
A five-year-old boy, his baby brother, and their mother were pulled out alive after being trapped for hours under the rubble of their family home, destroyed by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Monday night.
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