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Gaza hospital director receives bodies of brother and other relatives | |
while on duty | |
By Caitlin Danaher, Ibrahim Dahman, CNN | |
Updated: | |
6:38 PM EDT, Sat September 20, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as | |
the director of the Al-Shifa Hospital. A day later, the bodies of six | |
family members arrived while he was still on duty. | |
An Israeli airstrike hit his home in the Al Shati refugee camp, west of | |
Gaza City, where multiple generations had been living together, the | |
doctor said. | |
“This is the family home where we live. My brother, two of my | |
brother’s sons, my nephew’s wife, and two of their children were | |
martyred,” Abu Salmiya told CNN. | |
The strike on Abu Salmiya’s family home killed six people and injured | |
seven others, including the hospital director’s sister, niece and | |
nephews, he said. | |
CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the | |
target of the strikes. | |
A video shared by the director general of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, | |
Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, showed a grief-stricken Abu Salmiya kneeling next | |
to the bodies of his family members at the hospital, still wearing his | |
doctor’s scrubs. | |
“We pray that God grants patience and strength to his heart and the | |
hearts of his family,” Al-Bursh said in a post on social media. | |
Gaza’s civil defense said they rescued four injured people and | |
recovered three bodies at the home in Gaza’s northern beach area. | |
“A missing person remains buried under the rubble. Our crews are | |
trying to reach him and retrieve him,” the civil defense said. | |
The latest assault comes as global outcry intensifies over Israel’s | |
attempts to. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing the | |
city, where Israel has been demolishing high-rise buildings. | |
Israel says the city, Gaza’s largest, remains a Hamas stronghold. The | |
group’s military wing issued an image of the remaining Israeli | |
hostages it is holding, warning the incursion in Gaza City means that | |
Israel has lost any chance of getting its hostages out of the | |
territory. | |
Israel’s military on Saturday said it had struck more than 120 | |
“terrorist targets” since the start of its ground operation in Gaza | |
City. | |
In a statement, the IDF said during several days of fighting Israeli | |
troops had discovered tunnel shafts and underground passages and | |
“located submachine guns and ammunition hidden in civilian | |
structures.” It also claimed to have “eliminated more than 30 | |
terrorists.” | |
The IDF also said it was “creating a corridor to enable the movement | |
of the civilian population southward for their safety.” | |
The statement came as graphic videos shared by Palestinians on social | |
media and geolocated by CNN showed the aftermath of an Israeli | |
airstrike that hit a truck transporting displaced people on Al-Shifa | |
Street, west of Gaza City. | |
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said at least 90 people had | |
been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City on Saturday. The deaths | |
were recorded at the Al-Shifa Hospital, Baptist Hospital, Jordanian | |
Hospital and the Al-Quds Hospital in the city. | |
More than 65,200 Palestinian people in Gaza have been killed since | |
October 7, 2023, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian | |
health ministry. | |
The United Nations and others have warned that the will worsen an | |
already dire humanitarian crisis, with parts of Gaza officially | |
declared . | |
This week, an independent concluded for the first time that Israel has | |
committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, which Israel firmly | |
denies. | |
CNN’s Lauren Izso contributed to this report. | |
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