💨 Abstract

Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatrician, lost nine of her ten children in an Israeli air strike. Her only surviving child, 11-year-old Adam, and her husband, also a doctor, were critically injured. The strike in Khan Younis devastated her home, which was near a hospital where she was treating other victims. Najjar's colleague, British surgeon Graeme Groom, described the tragedy as "unbearably cruel."

Courtesy: Paul Sims