Doctor 'loses nine of her 10 children' in Israeli airstrike

Nine young children were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit the home of a doctor in Gaza, a hospital has said.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

Only one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's 10 children is said to have survived the missile strike on their home near Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Friday.

Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on Dr Najjar's surviving 11-year-old son, who was injured along with his father.

Dr Najjar, a paediatrician at al-Tahrir Clinic in the Nasser Medical Complex, was reportedly at work when nine of her children, who ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old, were killed. She ran home to find her family's house on fire, Ahmad al-Farra, head of the hospital's pediatric department, told the Associated Press.