An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar’s children and her husband were injured, but survived. Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital, said he had operated on her surviving 11-year-old boy.A video shared by the director of the Hamas-run health ministry and verified by the BBC showed small burned bodies being lifted from the rubble of a strike in Khan Younis on Friday.The BBC has approached Israel’s military for comment.More than 70 people were killed in Israeli air strikes on Friday, with at least another six killed so far on Saturday, the Hamas-run civil defence agency told AFP.Dr Muneer Alboursh, director of the health ministry, said on X that the family house was hit minutes after Dr al-Najjar’s husband Hamdi had returned home after driving his wife to work.Dr Alboursh said the eldest of Dr al-Najjar’s children was aged 12.Mr Groom said that the children’s father was “very badly injured”, in a video posted on the Instagram account of another British surgeon working at Nasser hospital, Victoria Rose.He said he had asked about the father, also a doctor at the hospital, and had been told he had “no political and no military connections and doesn’t seem to be prominent on social media”.He described it as an “unimaginable” situation for Dr al-Najjar.Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency, said on Telegram on Friday afternoon that his teams had recovered eight bodies and several injured from the al-Najjar house near a petrol station in Khan Younis. The hospital initially posted on Facebook that eight children had been killed, then two hours later updated that number to nine.In an interview recorded by AFP news agency, relative Yousse …
