In the early hours of Friday, as it did every day, Dr. Alaa al-Najar bade her 10 children before leaving home. The smallest, six months old, was still sleeping. And as every day, with the war raging in Gaza and Israeli raids a few meters away from her neighborhood in Han Younes, Najar was worried about leaving them home without her.

But Najar, 35, didn’t have many choices. One of Gaza’s few doctors, a respected pediatrician in the Nasser medical complex, had to go to work to take care of injured babies who had just survived Israeli attacks. She could never imagine that this farewell to her family would be her last.

A few hours later, her charred bodies of seven children, killed by an Israeli air raid on Han Younes, arrived at her hospital. Two other bodies, including Sanden, remained under the ruins. Of her 10 children, only one survived, along with their father, 40-year-old Hamdi al-Najar, also a doctor. Both are being hospitalized now.

“It is one of the most stunning tragedies since the beginning of the war“, Mohammed Saqer, chief of Nasser hospital, told the Guardian. “And it happened to a pediatrician who devoted her life to rescuing children just to stole her motherhood in a moment of click and deafening silence“

Footage notified by the Director of the Gaza Ministry of Health and verified by the Guardian newspaper show that burned, dismembered children’s bodies recovered from the ruins of Najar’s home near a gas station, as flames continue to flood.

Ali al-Najar, 50, Hamdi’s older brother, Alaa’s husband, said: “When I heard that the house was bombed, I instinctively ran into my car and headed to the spot, as I knew that my brother and his children were in. When I arrived, I was shocked. I found my nephew Adam, who survived, lying on the road under the ruins. He was covered with soot, his clothes were almost torn, but his soul was still within him. My brother was lying on the other side, bleeding strongly from his head and chest, and his hand was cut. Was still breathing with difficulty“

Ali called the medical team and transported the two survivors to the hospital. He then began looking for nine missing nieces and nephews.

“It was very difficult to clean the house because the roof was stacked on it. I began to look around the house hoping to find any of the kids because I assumed that the bombing might have been thrown out“, He said. “But then, unfortunately, the first burnt body appeared. After completely erasing the fire, we found the rest – some were mutilated and everything was burned. “

Alaa rushed to the point of the explosion as the rescuers pulled the body of her daughter to the ruins. With tears in her eyes, she begged the rescuers to let her hold her for the last time.

“Her body [της Ρεβάν] It was completely burned by the top, there was nothing left of its skin or flesh“, Said Ali. “There are still two corpses of my brother’s children that we could not find: the older, the 12 -year -old boy, the Yaia, and the six -month girl, the Saiden“

Alaa returned to the hospital to check the health of Adam’s 11 -year -old son and her husband. Sources at Nasser Hospital, who transported the children’s corpses one by one to the morgue, said their mother could not recognize them, as the burns were very bad.

The names of the children were Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.

The last goodbye

“Alaa went to the morgue, kept her children in her arms, led the Koran on them and prayed for them“, Said Dr. Ahmed al-Faras, 53 years old, director of the children’s building in the Nasser Medical Complex. “The other female doctors around her collapsed with sadness and rage, but Dr. Alah remained calm. God sent peace to her heart. After being buried, she went straight to control her husband and son and began to take care of them. “.

Colleagues in the hospital described Alaa as a dedicated, polite and moral physician, capable of withstanding huge pressure, treating dozens of children and patients daily and at the same time taking care of a large family.

“She was constantly worried about her children when she was in the hospital. When she heard that a house was bombed in the neighborhood of Kizan al-Najar, the mother’s heart warned her that something was not going well“, Said Fara.

She said there were no words about her loss. “If one wants to share an opinion, let’s first imagine that happens to him – to suddenly lose every person who is connected to him“

After last bid farewell to the lifeless bodies of her seven children, Alaa went to the ward where her child was hospitalized.

“Her husband suffered from severe trauma – brain injury and fractures caused by fragments, along with wounds of fragments and breast fractures“, Said Fara. “Her son’s condition was relatively better – his injuries ranged from moderate to serious“

Like any other person we have the right to live

Alaa’s colleagues and friends said her children had Egyptian citizenship and that Alaa and Hamdi were planning to leave for Egypt and enroll their children at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University.

Israeli defense forces told the Guardian: ‘Yesterday, an Israeli defense forces aircraft hit a number of suspects found to operate by a structure next to Israeli defense forces in the Han Younes area. The Khan Younis area is a dangerous war zone. Prior to the start of businesses there, Israeli defense forces evacuated this area for their own security. The damage to damage to non -involved civilians is under consideration“

The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that nearly 54,000 Palestinians, including 16,503 children, have been killed in ongoing Israeli attacks throughout the country.

The lighthouse said: ‘My only hope are the ones who were killed not just names on paper. We were born like any other person in this world. And like any other person we have the right to live“