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.
You do this very thing in your own post.
Reread your post again. Are there categorical statements?
Why yes, there are.
I thought you said that you’re from Missouri.
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.
It would probably save a lot of lives if Hamas terrorists stopped hiding behind woman, children, and neighbors, and stationed themselves in tunnels a safe distance from civilian infrastructure.
Besides, we've already seen an instance of a terrorist doctor and his "journalist" son using their own children and grandchildren as human shields and getting them killed.
And I knew that Israel developed and uses the "Where's Daddy?" AI program which reflects that society's total callousness and disregard for civilian and children's lives. Even the name reflects a very disturbing - sociopathic, even - outlook on Palestinian families. "Daddy's home!" Explosion! Oh so funny! THERE IS DADDY!
Truly
This was a targeting of a doctor or both doctors. Did you not know that Doctor's and medical workers are targeted, their homes bombed and families killed along with them? Around 1,400 health care workers have been targeted and murdered. PLUS many of their families.
Further, as another +972 article described, Israel uses another AI program called Lavender which creates an "assassination factory" as the article calls it. It is responsible for the awful death toll by having expanded the definition of "targets" to include civic workers, police, civil defense, and a plethora of professions such as doctors and health workers, or anyone with an even tangential association with the GOVERNMENT OF GAZA. It is a licence to kill.
https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/
I believe you already know all this.
Just ask the journalists not employed by the Hamas Ministry of Information.
New York, May 15, 2025—When Gazan journalist Tawfiq Abu Jarad received a phone call from a Hamas security agent warning him not to cover a protest, he readily complied, having been assaulted by Hamas-affiliated forces once before.
The April 27 women’s anti-war demonstration in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia was small but significant — one of several recent protests criticizing Hamas, which has controlled Gaza with an iron fist since ousting its political rival Fatah in 2007. Designated a terrorist organization by many Western governments, Hamas is known for violently targeting and killing its critics.
“They even told me that I would be responsible if my wife participated in the demonstration,” said Abu Jarad, a 44-year-old correspondent for Ramallah-based privately owned Sawt al-Hurriya radio station. “I have not covered any recent demonstrations,” he concluded, recalling how he was beaten and interrogated for hours by Hamas-affiliated masked assailants in the southern city of Rafah in November 2023, accusing him of “covering events in the Gaza Strip calling for a coup.” He only secured his freedom with a promise to stop reporting.
Another journalist told The Washington Post they feared covering highly unusual demonstrations in March 2025 would lead Hamas to accuse them of spying for Israel. A third said Hamas’ internal security agents sometimes followed journalists as they reported. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity.
https://cpj.org/2025/05/gaza-journalists-speak-out-about-hamas-intimidation-threats-assaults/
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.
Some responses on this thread are just shameful 
How some of you can call yourselves Democrats is beyond me , you sound more like
Likudnicks to me .......thus :
Frantically Dodging Piers Morgan's Questions, Israel's U.K. Envoy Exposed How Indefensible the Gaza War Has Become
Seemingly forgetting that Morgan once strongly supported Israel, U.K. ambassador Tzipi Hotovely deflected his simple questions with blatant whataboutism, failing to coherently address concerns about Israel's far-right genocidal intent in Gaza
Just when it seemed we had hit rock bottom and couldn't sink any lower, there was a knock from below – and Israel's ambassador to the U.K., Tzipi Hotovely, appeared overseas.
The envoy, a former right-wing Likud minister, inexplicably decided that this was a good time to be interviewed, with the world recoiling from the Israeli government's far-right, bloodthirsty policies and the IDF's actions in Gaza, by the sharp and relentless Piers Morgan.
What followed was nothing short of a live public diplomacy disaster. For nearly an hour, Morgan clung to a straightforward question that Hotovely kept dodging: "How is it that you know exactly how many Hamas terrorists were killed but have absolutely no idea how many children have been killed in the process?"
"I simply ask you why," Morgan pressed repeatedly for an answer.
It was clear he understood she would not give one. At one point, Hotovely claimed Israel maintains a low civilian-to-combatant kill ratio, but Morgan challenged her: if she doesn't know how many children have been killed, how could she possibly make that calculation? His point was clear: the refusal to answer reveals the political and military leadership's disregard for Palestinian civilians, whom they don't even count.
"Ask the people who can give you the answer, I don't have it," she finally concluded.
"You're the Israeli ambassador to my country – who else should I ask?!" he shot back.
Even those who skipped the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored and saw only short clips, like those aired on Israel's Channel 12 or on social media, could see just how severe another blow to Israel's global image was.
Instead of recognizing that much of the world now views Israel as sending the strongest army in the Middle East to carry out what could be considered a genocide, and preparing accordingly for an interview with Britain's top broadcaster, Hotovely sounded as if she had taken advice from backbencher far-right Israeli MKs.
At the start of the conversation, Morgan, armed with detailed knowledge, threw facts in her face. Every Israeli journalist should study their command of the profession as they grilled her on why, after more than a year and a half, Israel hasn't won the war or achieved its objectives, concluding that Israel's strategy has failed. "How many more children will you kill?" he asked, horrified.
"Piers, Israel doesn't kill children – Hamas uses them as human shields," she replied.
"You're killing children every day!" he snapped, as if she'd forgotten this wasn't an interview with soft Israeli anchors like Amalya Duek or Ofer Haddad on Channel 12 – whose show, just the night before, focused on former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's "defamation campaign abroad," after he alleged Israel is carrying out war crimes in Gaza.
"Answer my question," Morgan declared angrily, after she tried to deflect once again. "The truth is, yes – you're killing a lot of children. It's horrifying. These are war crimes – what else would you call them?" In her eyes, it was all Hamas propaganda – not, say, the painful truth visible to anyone not willfully blind.
"Piers, you don't care about Israeli children," she tried, playing the panic card and evoking fears of another October 7, while Europe still mourns the recent killing of nine children under the age of 18 from one grieving family in Gaza, the children of two doctors.
Throughout the interview, Morgan referenced statements from former Israeli prime ministers and generals – including Olmert, Ehud Barak, and Yair Golan – pointing out that they are not Islamist radicals but Israeli patriots. Not so for Hotovely, who served the government's narrative of destruction and insisted that their criticism was unpatriotic. In her view, everyone must justify Israel's actions as part of a "war for existence."
The ambassador – inexplicably not recalled under the previous unity government led by centrist Yair Lapid – seemed to forget that Morgan was once one of Israel's strongest vocal supporters. From the start of the war, he affirmed Israel's right to self-defense. Even now, he continues to distinguish between the country and its current government's policy. He explained that he's long asked what a proportionate Israeli response would look like – and concluded in recent weeks that what's happening, especially with the ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza, is grossly disproportionate.
Hotovely, facing a host who isn't taken in by spin or manipulation, claimed that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has no influence on government policy. But Morgan saw straight through her. He's made it perfectly clear what "the real plan is – which is to get all the Palestinians out of Gaza, that's a form of genocide" – what else would you call it?
Instead of salvaging Israel's image even slightly, Hotovely continued down her disastrous path, even asserting that under international law, "it's allowed to attack hospitals." It was a tragic scene: Hotovely floundering under Morgan's determined questioning, in stark contrast to the deferential treatment she receives from Israeli media.
The climax came when Morgan burst out in disgust: "Are you playing whataboutary?" – after she bizarrely brought up historical examples. "Piers, how many Japanese children were killed under American attacks? How many German children were killed under U.K. attacks in World War II?"
If right-wing political pundit Amit Segal, the godfather of Israeli whataboutery, had been sitting across from Piers Morgan, it's likely he would've dismantled the pundit's arguments in seconds. Morgan would have given viewers a rare, masterclass-level media showdown – worth every shekel and pound.
But where is Piers Morgan, and where is someone like Israeli reporter Moran Azulay, who this week "interviewed" Likud Minister Shlomo Karhi on the Knesset Channel? Instead of challenging him or confronting his dangerous rhetoric, she handed him a wide-open platform to spew incitement. Rather than correcting his misleading claims about Golan, leader of the center-left Democrats party, or scrutinizing his destructive actions against the Israeli media, Azulay "challenged" the far-right minister by asking who he'd like to have coffee with – and who in the Knesset he no longer speaks to. Pulitzer-worthy stuff, no doubt.
Source : Haaretz
Link : https://archive.md/S1zpv
"" Did you see that now thousands of reservists are refusing to serve or are speaking out about the war - not wanting to commit war crimes? I am so glad to see that. May the tide turn in Israel against this horrible war and somehow may Netanyahu's ouster come to pass. ""
of course I know about it , there are protests all across the country against the war for some time now.... not just those
for the hostages , recently they are combining .
Doubt you will read much about it in the english media but here are a few links ...
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1745502975
https://www.standing-together.org/en
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-05-18/refusal-strikes-and-protests-can-help-stop-war
The wave of refusal, which left-wing magazine 972 has called “the Israeli army’s biggest refusal crisis in decades”, reflects an ongoing shift in mainstream discourse. Even former military and security establishment officials have been speaking out and calling on soldiers to refuse orders. Speaking from the platform of an anti-war demonstration in Tel Aviv on 24 April, a former IDF colonel said: “No-one is off the hook. If you are sent to do wrong, you’re still responsible, even if it’s an order. A pilot sent to bomb a 10-story building because a logistics officer from Hamas lives with his family on the seventh floor should say, ‘No, I won’t do it. I won’t take part in war crimes. The responsibility is on me, because I’m not just following orders.’
“An intelligence officer asked to approve a target that will hurt dozens of civilians because an AI programme says the suspect once stood near someone maybe tied to Hamas, she should say no. A soldier ordered to shoot at medical workers and then bury them should say, ‘No, I won’t shoot. This is on me, because I am not a tool for wrongdoing.’ A soldier in the West Bank entering a village where settlers are attacking Palestinians whose commanders tell her to arrest the Palestinians, not the settlers, should say no.”
Next we'll find out there are no Palestinians, never were. Actually, come to think of it, that's already been tried!
