Gaza doctor's last goodbye before 9 children killed in airstrike
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‘One of the most heartbreaking tragedies’: Gaza doctor’s last goodbye before nine children killed in airstrike
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was at work when an indiscriminate Israeli strike destroyed her home, killing nine of her ten children, and her husband inleaving one son and her husband as survivors
By Malak A Tantesh & Lorenzo Tondo, Reposted from The Guardian, May 25, 2025
In the early hours of Friday, as she did every day, Dr Alaa al-Najjar said goodbye to her 10 children before leaving the house. The youngest, Sayden, six months old, was still sleeping. And like every day, with war raging in Gaza and Israeli strikes landing just metres from her neighborhood in Khan Younis, Najjar worried about leaving them at home without her.
But Najjar, 35, had little choice. One of Gaza’s dwindling number of medics, a respected pediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, she had to go to work to care for injured babies who had barely survived Israeli attacks. She could never have imagined that that farewell to her family would be her last.
A few hours later, the charred bodies of seven of her children, killed by an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis, arrived at her hospital. Two other bodies, including Sayden’s, remained under the rubble. Of her 10 children, only one had survived, along with their father, Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, also a doctor. Both are now in the hospital.
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