Brief: Israel kills 9 of doctor's 10 children, shoots at diplomats
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
As Israel’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. This week: Israel killed nine of a Palestinian doctor's 10 children. Israel attacked Palestinian police attempting to secure aid distribution. Israeli soldiers shot at diplomats in the occupied West Bank. It is day 597 of the war in Gaza, where more than 53,901 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Mmalegabe Motsepe, Al Jazeera Producer
- Tareq Abou Azzoum, (@TareqAzzom) Al Jazeera Correpondent
- Gabriel Elizondo, (@elizondogabriel) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hashem Ahelbarra, (@hashemahel) Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by David Enders. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is The Take. |
| 0:03.9 | We're coming to you on Sundays with weekly roundups as Israel's war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues. |
| 0:12.3 | Israel killed nine of a Gaza doctor's ten children. |
| 0:17.0 | Israel attacked Palestinian police attempting to secure aid distribution. |
| 0:21.9 | Israeli soldiers shot at diplomats in the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:26.0 | Today is Sunday, May 25. |
| 0:28.7 | It is day 597 of the war in Gaza, where more than 53,91 Palestinians have been killed. |
| 0:40.0 | Al-Najar, a doctor in the southern Gaza city of Han Yunus, received devastating news while |
| 0:45.6 | on shift on Friday. |
| 0:47.8 | An Israeli airstrike hit her home and killed nine of her ten children. |
| 0:52.4 | This is Al Jazeera's Malahabe Matsapi. |
| 0:55.4 | Her husband Hamdi and 10 children were in the house. |
| 0:58.9 | Only Hamdi, who is also a doctor and their son Adam, survived the attack. |
| 1:03.2 | They are in hospital in critical condition. |
| 1:07.3 | The Israeli army has recently intensified its military operation in Gaza, |
| 1:12.1 | saying it wants to eliminate Hamas' capabilities. |
| 1:15.3 | It says Friday's attack struck a number of suspects who were operating near its troops stationed in southern Gaza. |
| 1:21.3 | But health workers say Israeli forces did not give civilians in Khan Yunus' warning to evacuate the area. |
| 1:27.4 | A colleague of Al-Najar has described the moment the bodies of the children arrived at the hospital. |
| 1:34.5 | One of the civil defence workers handed me one of the bodies. |
| 1:38.0 | She was standing next to me and recognized it. |
| 1:40.5 | She said, this is Rival. Give her to me. |
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