Gazan doctor loses nine children in Israeli strike

加沙医生在以色列空袭中失去九名子女

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2025-05-25

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A Palestinian doctor was at work in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when nine of her ten children were killed and her husband wounded by an Israeli airstrike. It is the latest tragedy as Israel’s military campaign continues to place a huge toll on the civilian population. The Israeli military says “the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review”. We hear from a Bulgarian doctor who is working at the hospital. Also in the programme: The dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for "It Was Just an Accident" -- a movie shot in secret and inspired by his own experience in prison; and Five years after American author Jenine Cummins was vilified for her novel American Dirt, she tells us why she wrote her new book. (Picture: Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis. Credit: Getty)
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  • Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

  • We're coming to you live from London.

  • I'm Lise Doucette.

  • The news from Gaza is always grim.

  • But the latest reports about the fate of one family are... horrifying.

  • During Israeli airstrikes last night, the home of two doctors and their 10 children,

  • the al-Najjar family, was hit.

  • Nine of the 10 children were killed.

  • Only 11-year-old Adam survived, but with serious injuries.

  • His father, Hamid, was also critically injured.

  • And his mother, Alan Al-Najjar, was at work at the Nasser Hospital at this most terrible of times.

  • We heard more about what happened from the children's uncle, Ali Yahya Al-Najjar.

  • He spoke to the BBC's Arabic service.

  • A missile from an F-16 struck my brother's home.

  • The first rocket landed.

  • but didn't explode.

  • The second one detonated with a deafening blast.

  • At the time, I was displaced and far from our home.

  • When I heard about the strike on Kizan al-Najjar, I called my cousin.

  • He urged me to come immediately to help extract the bodies of my nieces and nephews from beneath the rubble.