Gaza doctor receives the charred bodies of her nine children while on duty: MEE

While on duty at the hospital, a Palestinian pediatrician received the charred bodies of nine of her ten children after the Israeli air force bombed her home in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Middle East Eye reported on Saturday.

Doctor Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatric specialist at al-Tahrir hospital within the Nasser Medical Complex, was treating victims of ongoing Israeli attacks across the Strip on Friday when her own children and husband were brought to the hospital by Gaza's civil defense.

The eldest of her children was 12 years old and the youngest only six months. They had all been severely burned in the bombing. Shortly before they were killed, Najjar had left for work with her husband, Hamdi al-Najjar, who then returned home.

Not long after, an Israeli jet dropped a bomb on their home in the Qizan al-Najjar area in southern Khan Younis, killing nine of their children and wounding the tenth. Najjar’s husband, who sustained serious injuries in the bombing, remains in intensive care.

Footage released by the Palestinian Civil Defense shows rescue crews pulling the children’s bodies from the rubble of their home as it was still engulfed in flames, MEE reports. Hampered by a lack of proper equipment and the vast scale of destruction, the rescue workers could be heard calling into the rubble, desperately searching for signs of life.

The civil defense teams reported they were only able to recover the bodies of seven of the doctor's children. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital, as work continued to search for the others. The last two children, including a six-month-old baby, with barely recognizable features, remained trapped under the rubble for some time before first responders had managed to locate them and pull them out.

The children names are Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Revan, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra.