Location at an overview: Hamas authority: nine siblings killed in Israel’s attack

According to nine of her own children, a pediatrician has lost nine of her own children in an Israeli air raid in the Gaza Strip. Only an eleven -year -old son and her husband survived the attack in Chan Junis in the south of the sealed coastal area seriously injured, the director of the health authority controlled by the Islamist Hamas said. According to the British broadcaster BBC, this also reported the Nasser Hospital, where the mother worked at the time of the attack.

The Israeli army wanted to check the reports. In Chan Junis there was a drone attack on several suspects near Israeli ground troops, a spokesman said. “The area of ​​Chan Junis is a dangerous fighting zone,” the “Times of Israel” quoted a statement by the military. Before the start of the use of their own troops, the civilian population there was asked to leave the area for their own safety, it said.

“Unbearably cruel”

A British surgeon of the Nasser Hospital, who had operated the surviving child, was shaken in an Instagram video. It is “unbearably cruel” that a doctor who has been concerned about children for years has lost almost all of her own children through a single attack, he told the BBC. The father of the children also worked as a doctor at the clinic. It is uncertain whether he would survive. According to the health authority, the family’s house was hit shortly after his return after the man brought his wife to work.

According to the authority controlled by the Hamas, 79 Palestinians died in Israeli attacks on Saturday alone. The authority does not differentiate between civilians and fighters in its figures. The Israeli military announced on the same day that its own troops had attacked more than 100 destinations throughout the Gaza Strip over the past day. Among other things, terrorists, military structures and tunnels were hit. The Israeli information could not be checked independently at first.

Demonstrators in Israel demand release of the hostages

In the meantime, in the Israeli coastal metropolis Tel Aviv, hundreds of people demonstrate for an end to the Gaza war and the immediate release of the hostages, which are still in the violence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We know that they live and we know that time expires,” said Liran Berman, whose twin brothers were deported to Hamas in Israel’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.

The raid, killed around 1,200 people and more than 250 dragged to Gaza as hostages, was triggered by the war in the Gaza Strip. Since the beginning of the war, more than 53,800 people have been killed in the sealed coastal area, according to the health authority controlled by the Hamas. This number also does not differentiate between civilians and fighters and can hardly be checked independently.

According to Israeli information, 20 hostages are currently being held alive in the Gaza Strip. With three other kidnapped people, it is unclear whether they are still alive. In addition, the remains of 35 abducted are located in the coastal strip. Negotiations with Hamas on an agreement to release the hostages have come to a standstill again.

Media: Calls with alleged hostage screams

“Every day without conversations is a day when we risk losing it,” said Berman. According to matching Israeli media reports, numerous people in Israel had previously received calls in which recordings of screams of recorded hostages in the Gaza Strip were said to have been heard. In addition to the screams, explosions and the howling of sirens were also heard, the Israeli news site “Ynet” reported. The calls were deducted by unknown numbers, it said.

According to the forum of the hostage families, the recordings played are records from Hamas’ hostage videos, which the terrorist organization had recently spread. The forum emphasized in a message that the calls were not made on its behalf. According to the TV station N12, the Israeli cyberdirection initiated an investigation. “The cyber directorate emphasizes that this is attempts to panic among the population,” N12 quoted from a message from the authority.