Hamdi Al-Najjar was at home in Khan Younis with his 10 children when an Israeli air strike occurred, killing all but one of them.
He was rushed to the nearby Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, where he is being treated for his injuries on Sunday (May 25).
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He was rushed to the nearby Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, where he is being treated for his injuries on Sunday (May 25).
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00:00Tahani Yahya Al-Najjar visits her brother in his Khan Yunus intensive care hospital room on Sunday,
00:08willing him to wake up.
00:11You are okay, this will pass, she tells him.
00:17Hamdi Al-Najjar was at his home with his 10 children when an Israeli airstrike hit over the weekend.
00:25Nine of his children died.
00:27Hamdi, who is a doctor and his only surviving child were rushed to the nearby Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza,
00:34where he is being treated for his injuries.
00:37His wife, Alaa Al-Najjar, also a doctor, was not at home at the time of the strike.
00:43Hamdi's sister Tahani describes the aftermath.
00:47The area was full of smoke and the bombing was very intense, so I found my entire family's house collapsed.
00:56My house is on the street behind them and they are on the main road.
00:59I started asking, where is Hamdi? Where are Hamdi's children?
01:04My other brother was coming to get me, so Hamdi's wife told me that her children had died.
01:09I couldn't bear to hear what she was saying nor did I comprehend what was happening to us,
01:14because we were in a state of extreme fear and panic.
01:17It is indescribable. Praise be to God.
01:21Hamdi has undergone two operations to stop bleeding in his abdomen and chest,
01:25and is also being treated for head injuries and other wounds, his doctor said.
01:29The Israeli military has confirmed it conducted an airstrike on Khan Yunus on Friday,
01:35and said it was targeting suspects in a structure that was close to Israeli soldiers.
01:40The military is looking into claims that, quote, uninvolved civilians were killed, it said,
01:45adding that the military had evacuated civilians from the area before the operation began.
01:51According to medical officials in Gaza, the nine children were aged between 1 and 12 years old.
01:57The surviving child, a boy, is in a serious but stable condition, the hospital said.
02:03Tahani says there is no safe space left for her family to seek refuge.
02:08The death, separation and destruction I lived in my family's house, my memories, my whole life is gone.
02:20They wouldn't do to the targeted people what they did to Hamdi.
02:24Seriously, if you saw the place.
02:26On the first day, I felt like I wasn't conscious.
02:29I wanted someone to hit me in the head so I would wake up because what I was seeing wasn't real.
02:35This is not true.
02:37This is not true.
02:39This is not true.
02:41This is not true.
02:43This is not true.
02:45This is also true.
02:47The police presence of Prophet Lock.
02:49The police presence of our United United States is a cluster of famÃlia,
02:51the office of the military.
02:53To make sure this was actually closed.