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Sun 25 May 2025 2:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli occupation presents preliminary results of its investigation into the killing of Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar's nine children.

The Israeli occupation army is expected to present preliminary findings on Sunday from an internal investigation into the massacre it perpetrated in Khan Yunis, which resulted in the deaths of nine children from the family of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a physician, in an airstrike targeting her home while she was working at Nasser Hospital.

According to the Israeli Walla news website, the commander of the 36th Division of the Israeli army, Mor Omer, intends to submit the initial findings of the internal investigation into the airstrike carried out yesterday, Saturday, to his military command.

A military source in the division stated that the investigation is focusing on the moments preceding the attack, the parties that approved the decision, and the intelligence circumstances that led to the airstrike on the Palestinian doctor's home.

The source indicated that the investigation will also include a review of the intelligence information on which the occupation forces relied in targeting the house. It is not yet known whether the occupation forces will allow the results to be published or whether they will be submitted solely to the relevant military authorities.

In a new massacre perpetrated by the occupation as part of its war of extermination against Gaza, nine children from the family of Dr. al-Najjar were killed yesterday, Saturday, while she was working at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, when her home was targeted.

Medical sources reported that one of the family members survived the bombing but sustained critical injuries, while the children's father sustained serious injuries and was subsequently transferred for treatment. The sources confirmed that the doctor was performing her duties at the hospital during the raid.

This massacre came amidst the intensive Israeli military raids on areas in the Gaza Strip, which have resulted in the deaths of dozens and the injury of hundreds over the past 24 hours, according to medical sources in the Strip.

The targeting of Dr. al-Najjar's home is the latest in a series of deadly attacks carried out by the occupation forces in recent hours, amid escalating warnings of a worsening humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip amid ongoing and escalating military operations.

The Israeli military announced on Saturday that it was "reviewing reports of civilian casualties in a strike carried out by a warplane," adding in its statement that "Khan Yunis is a dangerous combat zone that was evacuated of its residents for their protection before military operations began there."

Gaza's Undersecretary of Health, Yousef Abu al-Rish, recounted the moments he met Dr. Alaa al-Najjar in the operating room of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis after learning that nine of her children had been martyred.

In a moving testimony published Saturday, Abu al-Rish said he rushed to the operating room after learning that the doctor, who had abandoned her children amidst the war and siege, was waiting for any information about her son, the sole survivor among ten children.

Abu Al-Rish wrote: “I quickly searched among the bewildered faces and features that depicted the pain of the disaster... I quickly distinguished the most broken and sorrowful of those faces... and suddenly one of the women pointed to another who stood tall, calm, and patient, with eyes full of contentment, from which nothing could be heard but glorification and repentance... that was Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar.”

He added, "My words faltered in the face of such steadfastness, and I found nothing to say in the face of such a unique example of faith and patience... I have never before seen the meaning of 'beautiful patience' embodied in this way." Abu al-Rish concluded his testimony by saying, "I went back, asking myself questions of bewilderment: Who? How? And why?"


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