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Hamdi al-Najjar: Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from injuries [1]
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Date: 2025-06
Gaza doctor whose nine children were killed in Israeli strike dies from injuries
4 days ago Share Save Tom Bennett BBC News Reporting from Jerusalem Share Save
Getty Images Dr Hamdi al-Najjar - pictured during a visit by his niece - died from his wounds on Saturday, health officials said
A Palestinian doctor whose children were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 23 May has died from injuries sustained in the same attack, health officials say. Dr Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, had just returned from dropping his wife, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, off at Nasser Hospital, where the couple both worked, when their home in Khan Younis was struck. Nine of their children were killed, while the 10th was severely injured. Hamdi was treated in hospital for brain and internal injuries but died on Saturday. Alaa and their 11-year-old son Adam, who remains in hospital, are the sole remaining survivors of the family. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said at the time that the incident was being reviewed.
The couple founded a private medical compound in Khan Younis, of which Hamdi was the head. His brother, Dr Ali al-Najjar, described him as a loving father who would tend to poorer patients for free. Their children Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Saydeen, Luqman and Sidra were all killed in the attack. The eldest was 12 years old and the youngest six-months, according to local media. Hamdi sustained significant injuries to his brain, lungs, right arm, and kidney in the strike, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor working at Nasser hospital, told the BBC last week. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital who operated on the surviving son, Adam, told the BBC that it was "unbearably cruel" that his mother Alaa, who spent years caring for children as a paediatrician, could lose almost all her own in a single strike. He said that Adam's "left arm was just about hanging off, he was covered in fragment injuries and he had several substantial lacerations." "Since both his parents are doctors, he seemed to be among the privileged group within Gaza, but as we lifted him onto the operating table, he felt much younger than 11."
Getty Images Mourners gathered for Dr al-Najjar's funeral on Sunday
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