On Sunday, Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis announced the death of Dr. Hamdi Najjar, who succumbed to his wounds days after being injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his home and claimed the lives of his nine children.

The incident has become one of the most heartbreaking human stories since the start of the war on Gaza. Dr. Najjar’s wife, Dr. Alaa, was on duty in the emergency department of the same hospital when her nine children arrived—charred bodies—following the airstrike on their family home on May 23.

Dr. Najjar was admitted to the hospital in critical condition, alongside their only surviving child, Adam, who is still undergoing treatment for severe injuries. Adam lost his nine siblings: Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jibran, Eve, Revan, Sadeen, Luqman, and Sidra.

Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, previously recounted the tragedy: “Dr. Alaa had ten children, the eldest no older than twelve. On the morning of the strike, she left for work with her husband. Shortly after he returned home, a missile struck, reducing their house to rubble.”

Dr. Hamdi Najjar passed away today, reuniting with his nine children and leaving behind a grieving mother and an orphaned child fighting to survive.

Amid the rubble of Khan Younis lies a human tragedy—one of thousands that tell the story of Gaza’s pain under Israeli bombardment and Arab silence.