Israeli strike kills nine of Gaza doctor's children, hospital says
Mallory Moench
BBC News
Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were injured, but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy.
A video shared by the director of the Hamas-run health ministry and verified by the BBC showed small burned bodies being lifted from the rubble of a strike in Khan Younis on Friday.
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Dr Muneer Alboursh, director of the health ministry, said on X that the al-Najjars' family house was hit minutes after Dr al-Najjar's husband Hamdi had returned home after driving his wife to work.
Dr Alboursh said the eldest of Dr al-Najjar's children was aged 12.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eq9lq7xr1o
The AI program called "Where's Daddy?" was designed specifically to track targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences, often at night when their entire families were sleeping. Or at any time, apparently.
This is why there are so many women and children casualties. It's unconscionable.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
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Why would the doctor's husband be targeted?
there's a coterie of folks who showed up on tiktok October 8 through October 14, 2023, and before Israeli had taken a single step against Hamas, the absurd talking points were on full display.
Two things are always consistently missing from the melodramatic tiktok videos: there has never been any anger towards Hamas for destroying Gaza, using civilians as human shields, and stealing food from children over the past two decades and none of the melodramatic hand-wringers has ever come forward to any offer to help to the anti-Hamas protestors and resistance fighters in Gaza who continue to risk their lives every day to try to rid their fellow Palestinians of the scourge of Hamas. There is never even a mention of them. Their cause has been lost to a different agenda.
Not everyone is an easily gaslit by the continual gong of the same repetitive sanctimony that influencers disseminate day in and day out. Odd that there is never content either against Hamas or for the people of Gaza. But because influencers are anything but subtle, it is obvious exactly who it is exactly for and who it is against.
Influencers need to spare the rest of the world their sanctimony and wake up to the fact that they are being used bad actors with one goal.
Of course, I could be proven wrong if any of those who shill content ever get off their asses and do something, anything to help and support the anti-Hamas Palestinians in Gaza who they have been ignoring for the better part of 18 months.
I won't hold my breath.
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I find it enlightening to read profiles and first posts.
https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/journalist-doctor-held-israelis-hostage-in-gaza/
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In the aftermath of last month’s rescue, neighbors in Nuseirat, a refugee camp in central Gaza, told CNN they were shocked to learn that Ahmed Aljamal, a physician, and his family had kept hostages in their midst.
“Had we known, had he told us, we would have taken safety precautions, hide or move to somewhere else,” one neighbor, Abu Muhammad El Tahrawi, said.
Dr. Aljamal, 74, was a general practitioner and also led the call to prayer at the local mosque, waking early every day to get there before dawn.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/middleeast/gaza-neighborhood-israeli-hostages-intl-cmd
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To the outside world, they were a physician, a journalist. No one suspected their apartment had become a prison.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/the-hostages-next-door-inside-a-notable-gaza-familys-dark-secret-2896f6aa
He relied on his neighbors to serve as human shields and exposed his grandchildren to all the dangers concommitant to the terrorist lifestyle.
Or targeting healthcare workers.
Care must still be taken with both the hospital and the patients.
This is an illustration of the IDF definition of "care".
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You will be hard-pressed to find Geneva authorizing actions that result in mass graves of patients and civilians in hospital court yards, babies left behind to die in pediatric wards by a "forgetful" military or a disabled man in a wheelchair attacked by military dogs just for kicks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c511k1nqx81o
This most recent strike was on the command center hidden underground in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital.
It was reported that Palestinian *journalist* Hassan Aslih (who live streamed his October 7 murder spree) was killed in the strike.
were hit versus what you claimed was a targeted AI strike on Hamdi Al-Najjar.
Folks need to keep track of what they write.
Such pain and loss... inflicted knowingly and not caring.. it is pure evil.
The magnitude of this woman's loss is what has made people sit up and take notice. Yet this has been happening thousands of times to other mothers. Children too, now orphaned and lost. None of it should have happened. And it still goes on..
whatever hellhole autocracy that will have them to spirit them to safety. Wasn't the coward Sinwar trying to negotiate for personal safe passage when he was eliminated?
Meanwhile, the people of Gaza continue to risk their lives to tell the world exactly what Hamas has done and is doing to them, and so many are too busy waging a public relations war to listen.
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So listen, the media reported a few days ago that Israel killed 9 kids, all children of a Dr. in Gaza.
From the first second, I knew this sounded off. (You don’t have to be a rocket scientist. Look at this ridiculous, obviously fake picture!)
My inbox is full of people asking me if it’s true. I waited to see the information from a reliable source.
And here it is. Basically, fake news. I know, shocker!
Preliminary findings of Khan Yunis strike:
The IDF says the strike targeted four terrorists and was conducted according to protocol.
There is no verified evidence that 9 children were killed, and the photos circulated appear to be fake.
The area had been fully evacuated of civilians, and the IDF says the strike would not have taken place if civilians were known to be present.
This is has been the shared photo of the Gaza Dr. And her children.
You’d think by now, they’d be a lot better at AI generated images. Nine kids, all the same age. Not one is burned.
Yea, ok. These people are so sick. What won’t they do to vilify Israel? The answer? Nothing. They’ve proven that. Just disgusting.
I am with you, however. I don't think the story is real, but even if it were, it's the story of a father using his own children as human shields.
Enough heartbreak as it is without enduring it here too.
Hijacking a thread to distract from a very horrific war-crime...even some absurd innuendos, smears and put-downs that get personal...not the first time...I guess when neither facts nor laws and morality are on your side, and all you have are the same old (wrong)talking points and misrepresentations of what was or wasn't said - and when that doesn't work...
It's not just heartbreaking but toxic.
So I've freed myself. Free at last, what I wish for Palestinians!!
Mahalo my friend.