A medical source at Khan Yunis Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip said that Al-Najjar died of injuries sustained in an Israeli bombing of his home in the Qizan Al-Najjar area.
On May 23, Palestinian pediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was shocked to learn that the bodies of nine of her children arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis while she was working there. They had been burned to death in an Israeli airstrike on her home. Adam, her only surviving child, and her husband, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, were also injured that same day.
The government media office in Gaza said at the time that Israel had committed a "horrific massacre" in which nine children from the al-Najjar family were killed in Khan Yunis, deeming it a "war crime" under all international laws.
The government office stated at the time that this massacre was "a crime added to the Israeli occupation's record of murder, terrorism, and genocide."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 178,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
