A Gaza doctor went to work to save lives. Hours later, her children's burned bodies arrived

[David__77]

(CNN — Dr. Alaa al-Najjar left her ten children at home on Friday when she went to work in the emergency room at the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza.

Hours later, the bodies of seven children - most of them badly burned - arrived at the hospital, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. They were Dr. Najjar’s own children, killed in an Israeli airstrike on her family’s home, Gaza Civil Defense said. The oldest was 12, the youngest just three years old. The bodies of two more children – a 7-month-old and a two-year-old - remained trapped under the rubble as of Saturday morning.

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Gaza Civil Defense published graphic video from the scene of the strike. It showed medics lifting an injured man onto a stretcher as other first responders try to extinguish a fire engulfing the house. They recover the charred remains of several children from the debris and wrap them in white sheets.

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“Nine of their children were killed: Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman, and Sidra,” Barsh posted on X. He said her husband was in intensive care.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/24/middleeast/gaza-doctor-children-bodies-hospital-intl

[The Blue Flower]

1. Beyond tragic--sickening

Hurts the heart and the soul.

[ChazII]

2. It hurts my heart

to read this.

[AloeVera]

3. The 7-month old and 2-year old are dead too.

Nine children killed is the updated toll.

Are there any words left to say?

[David__77]

9. There are so many still missing.

[AloeVera]

16. It was "over 10,000" nearly a year and a half ago.

It is still reported the same way.

The missing are uncounted - and even the dead and buried are not fully tracked- because the capacity to count or track them has been destroyed. One of the many side effects of destroying hospitals.

We will eventually find out the death toll is far greater. You really can't hide or deny a genocide forever.

[David__77]

18. I think that's part of why Israel's stated war aims is to depopulate Gaza. Remove any witnesses.

[AloeVera]

21. The ban on foreign journalists and the killing of local ones..

And the successful demonization and discrediting of UNRWA...

All done to prevent, remove and discredit eyewitnesses.

Oh I can hear the stampede coming... that's ok, this post deserves more eyeballs. Because when 9 children are killed in a family, there is a chance someone, somewhere will stop supporting Israel and say enough is enough, why am I complicit in this?

[claudette]

29. Yes

We have to stop funding genocide

[malaise]

4. You won't see this covered on M$Greedia

Genocide is still genocide

[LauraInLA]

14. This is linked from CNN.

[Ping Tung]

5. The murderers were "just following orders". The universal excuse.

[Iggo]

7. It's not their fault! Hamas made them do it!

[Ping Tung]

12. Or, they did it because they were hungover. Or, their car broke down. Or, they just like to kill people.

[AloeVera]

15. Now that is harsh.

Only a certain type of people. Tha natives of the land.

[brush]

35. But they keep doing it and doing it and doing it. It's way past defending against Hamas. It's genocide.

and by warmonger Netanyahu who is a Jew, and know of the genocide in Germany against his own people.

[John1956PA]

30. The husband/father of the household was "identified" as being a threat by Israel's AI, which is known to make mistakes.

The missile struck the house just after the man entered it.

[AloeVera]

31. The "Where's Daddy?" AI program is as sadistically named as it actually is.

It allows the IDF to wait for the exaxt moment a "target" enters his home thus ensuring his entire family and neighbours are killed. Oops, the targets were identified using another AI program leading to "mistakes". How effing sadistic is that?

Apparently it's easier and cheaper - they use dumb bombs - than locating a target in the field.

[spanone]

6. K&R

[CountMyVote4Reality]

8. Never forget.

[Iamscrewed]

10. God

Has a plan?

[Orrex]

11. And so Netanyahu's voluntary campaign of deliberate child murder continues

Some unthinking, well-trained dolt will probably insist that this is Hamas’ fault.

[mzmolly]

13. Evil

and horrifying.

[erronis]

17. Waiting to see some alerts from the ever-vigilant defenders of atrocities....

[claudette]

28. Oh they'll

be here to call us antisemitic

[Grins]

19. And you wonder why a crazed man gunned down 2 Jews in Washington, DC

Question: Which story will get the most coverage?

[calimary]

20. All I want to know is WHEN does this END???

When CAN this end?

[claudette]

27. When

Nuttyahoo kills every Palestinian and renames Gaza to Israeli

[womanofthehills]

22. Her friend speaks about this horror

Link to tweet

?s=46

[David__77]

23. The BBC person sounded pretty defensive to me about the documentary they pulled.

Not surprising.

[AloeVera]

25. Yes. I stopped watching the BBC over a year ago.

They lost my trust. No more than typists for the IDF and censors on Israel's behalf.

They also banned a documentary about the impact of the war on children. Told from the children's pov. Reason? The narrator is a child of the Minister of Agriculture. But the real reason is the pressure from pro-Israel groups and Israel who, for obvious reasons, hated the documentary.

[AloeVera]

24. "What do we tell these people why we have not stopped every single case of red lines being crossed"?t

What indeed? Or proverbially, our grandchildren?

Over 1,400 health care workers killed to date. Not including thousands of members of their families, in a deliberate, systematic targeting of health care workers whose families are considered merely collateral damage.

Hospitals bombed. Pediatric wards filled with maimed and orphaned children. Mothers forced to look at the bodies of their burned, mutilated beyond-recognition children. This mother could not do it

As this doctor in the video says, to hear even air time given to the IDF's claims and justifications that are transparent lies and fabrications contradicted by every human rights organization is just preposterous.

24/7 terror even as they are being starved and maimed.

As she also says, there must be an international force going into Gaza now and all countries, organizations etc that have been complicit must be held to account.

I want to point out also that the fact that the attack occurred shortly after the husband arrived at home could be an indication that Israel's sadistically-named "Where's Daddy" AI was deployed. It is used to make sure any targets are home with their families when the bombings occur. I made a post about this. Whatever the case, both scenarios show a criminal lack of concern for children and civilians.

I also urge everyone to watch this video. It will change you.

[stillcool]

34. I don't know how to put this...

but I'd like to thank you for your tenacity and your ability to speak facts to a barrage of talking points having nothing to do with the massive death and destruction. I rarely read anything about Gaza, it is so horrific, but what is harder is having to read what the pro-Israel can do no wrong people say. You are very impressive.

[AloeVera]

36. I would rec your post as I rec every one of those defending Palestinians and calling out the no-wrong people.

Because the pro-human rights side can use all the help it can get...

But I'll refrain from tooting my own horn though lol.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are very kind and you have made me smile. A good deed and much needed.


Often it's felt like a cry in the wilderness and prompted some very negative emotions. Dismay, frustration, shock, self-doubt, anger, loss of faith. Sorrow mainly. I could not understand why people weren't seeing what I saw so clearly. Now they are beginning to and it honestly brings me no satisfaction. It's too late. The best we can hope for now is a quick end to the slaughter/genocide and the thwarting of the planned ethnic cleansing. But still, it will take decades to try to heal this people. Deep trauma wounds, family killed and everything they knew, remembered, treasured - gone. The same fate that befell another people in yet another bitter irony that goes unrecognized... Why is it so hard to see?

[stillcool]

33. thank you!

the pushback is evident, but she did a fantastic job of explaining what happened under obvious duress...though that duress must be quite normal. 19 months.

[claudette]

26. 🤮

And Israel wants us to believe that is SELF DEFENSE?? It is pure murder and America is helping pay for if. Disgusting

[stillcool]

32. oh wow. takes my breath away

[David__77]

37. Because the thousands of killed children are rarely seen.

Link to tweet

[womanofthehills]

38. So many drs & their families are targeted

Link to tweet

?s=46

[Nanjeanne]

39. What is increasingly horrible is the lack of coverage something like this gets by our media.

Just doing a quick Els and/or video search its coverage is majority by international media outlets and very limited in US. Journalists in US should be ashamed.