A Palestinian father who had lost nine of his 10 children in an Israeli airstrike has died from wounds sustained in the same attack, local health officials have said.
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, a doctor at Nasser hospital, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on 23 May, killing nine of his children. He had just returned home after accompanying his wife Alaa, a paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, to work when the building was struck. He had initially survived alongside his son Adam, 11, who is still in hospital.
Even by the terrible standards of the Gaza conflict, their deaths had shocked the international community.
Footage shared by the director of Gaza’s health ministry and verified by the Guardian showed the burnt, dismembered bodies of Najjar’s children being pulled from the rubble of their house near a petrol station as flames engulfed what remained of the family’s home.
Jews are a part of Palestine as much as other Semitic peoples, like Arabs. It’s Zionists and their industrial terror engine who are the real enemies of the people, chosen or otherwise.
Yeah people tends not to act reasonably when you bomb their entire family.
People who support collective punishment deserve collective punishment.
Don’t spread the Zionists propaganda for free. They desperately want you to associate opposition to their colonial project with plain old bigotry.
I’m going to assume you mean well, but comments like your do the Zionists (who are mostly white, by the way) work for them.
So you deserve collective punishment?
I think it’s more in the sense of: if someone demonstrates that they are OK with collective punishment (i.e. by doing it), then they forfeit the right to complain about collective punishment when they are on the receiving end of it.
I oppose collective punishment, but if someone has already agreed to it being OK then I don’t have any reason to stand up in opposition when it happens to them. After all, they have already agreed to it and proven that it is acceptable to them.
If you oppose collective punishment, then that also means that you don’t engage in it. No getting to have it both ways. I’m not very tolerant of double standards.
True, but Palestinians (and Arabs in general) don’t understand that. The Middle East has fallen for the Zionist lie that they represent Jews everywhere hook, like and sinker, so the distinction between Zionists and Jews doesn’t really exist there. I mean hell, growing up I thought “Zionist” was another word for “Jew”. It’s another thing Zionists broke that needs fixing, but for example when Arabs hear of another Israeli atrocity thet don’t curse Zionists, they curse “the unjust Jews and those who support them”. So yeah, someone in this situation is going to want to lob IEDs at Jews, not Zionists (though it’s not like Israel has a significant number of non-Zionist Jews).