Images of bodies laid out on hospital stretchers sparked outrage in the shelled Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The head of a hospital in the Gaza Strip has issued an emotional appeal for an end to Israeli bombing, following an airstrike that doctors said killed several infants.
“Look at these children. Who is killing these children?” said Yousef al-Akkad, director of the European Gaza Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis, standing behind the bandaged and bloodied infants. I asked standing up.
“Free world, what do you think about this massacre committed against bereaved families and oppressed peoples?” al-Akkad said Wednesday in a video released by the besieged enclave’s health ministry. continued.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least nine people, including seven children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the al-Bakri family home south of Khan Yunis. Many people were reportedly trapped under the rubble.
Images of children’s bodies laid out on hospital stretchers sparked outrage in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and news of the attack spread quickly on social media.
Photographers flocked to the operating room of the Europa Gaza Hospital, women covered their eyes and doctors wept.
“This is a genocide,” al-Akkad said, his voice choked with emotion. “Let the world see, they’re just kids.”
Doctors and residents also confirmed that the children died in the attack and said Wednesday that al-Bakri’s family was just one of many similar incidents, according to the Associated Press.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which launched a devastating air campaign into Gaza after an Oct. 7 attack on Hamas, the group that controls the southern Israeli enclave.
At least 1,400 people have been killed in Israel and nearly 3,500 people in Gaza, including 1,030 children.
