GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Dr. Ahmed Al-Najjar was devastated when he witnessed the most horrible scene during his work time.
As Al-Najjar was preparing to receive injured people at dawn Thursday after receiving a signal that a house had been bombed in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, he received a phone call informing him that the said bombing had targeted his family’s home.
Cameras captured the moment ambulances arrived at the hospital, where the doctor opened one of the doors to find the bodies of the victims inside.
The distraught doctor spotted two bodies lying on a stretcher covered in blood, so he approached with trembling steps and lifted the cover on the face of one of the victims, only to be surprised that the body belonged to his father. He then removed the cover from the other body, only to realize that it was his mother. Both his parents had been martyred in the Israeli shelling that targeted their home.
The doctor froze for a few moments, before collapsing in tears, not believing what he saw, as his colleagues in the medical staff rushed to console him and embrace him. The tragedy did not claim only the lives of his parents. Among the victims was the body of a young girl whose head appeared to have been cut off.
The incident is not new to Gaza, as many paramedics and civil defense workers have faced similarly difficult moments during the ongoing Israeli genocide.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the toll of the Israeli genocide has risen to 51,355 martyrs and 117,248 injured since October 7, 2023.
