Headline Roundup • May 26th, 2025
Israel Kills Nine Children of Gaza Doctor in Airstrike While She’s At Work
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Israel struck the home of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza on Friday, killing nine of her ten children and leaving her surviving son and husband badly injured, according to the hospital where she works.
The Details: Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatrician at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, was at work when the strike occurred. The Hamas-run health ministry shared a video verified by BBC (Center bias) that showed “small burned bodies lifted from the rubble of a strike.” BBC also reported speaking to some of al-Najjar’s colleagues, doctors from Bulgaria and Britain, who confirmed the strike and injuries.
Israeli Statement: Israel said, “Aircraft struck a number of suspects who were identified operating from a structure adjacent to IDF troops in the area of Khan Younis. The Khan Younis area is a dangerous war zone. Before beginning operations there, the IDF evacuated civilians from this area for their own safety.”
For Context: On Saturday, Israel said it had struck more than 100 targets across Gaza during the previous day. The Hamas ministry said at least 74 people were killed during this period.
How the Media Covered It: AllSides did not find much coverage from the right. BBC News reported statements from al-Najjar’s colleagues and prominently included Israel’s statements as well. The Guardian (Left) emphasized the personal tragedy of the doctor and noted Hamas’ claim that 54,000 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the war. The Daily Mail (Right) focused on the critical condition of the surviving husband and child.
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Featured Coverage of this Story
Reuters
In the early hours of Friday, as she did every day, Dr Alaa al-Najjar said goodbye to her 10 children before leaving the house. The youngest, Sayden, six months old, was still sleeping. And like every day, with war raging in Gaza and Israeli strikes landing just metres from her neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Najjar worried about leaving them at home without her.
But Najjar, 35, had little choice. One of Gaza’s dwindling number of medics, a respected paediatrician at the Nasser medical complex, she had to go to work...
A doctor whose nine children were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza remains in a critical condition.
Hamdi al-Najjar was injured by the strike on Friday and sustained significant injuries to his brain, lungs, right arm and kidney.
The attack in the southern city of Khan Yunis has left him critical, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee told the BBC.
An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.
Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were injured, but survived.
Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital who operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy, told the BBC it was "unbearably cruel" that his mother, who spent years caring for children as a paediatrician, could lose almost all her own in a...
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