Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.

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I'm Lee Doucette.

The news from Gaza is always grim, but the latest reports about the fate of one family are horrifying.

During Israeli airstrikes last night, the home of two doctors and their ten children, the Al-Najar family, was hit.

Nine of the ten children were killed.

Only 11-year-old Adam survived, but with serious injuries. His father,

Hamid, was also critically injured. And his mother, Alan Al-Najar, was at work at the Nasser

hospital at this most terrible of times. We heard more about what happened from the children's

uncle, Ali Yaya Al-Najar. He spoke to the BBC's Arabic service.

A missile from an F-16 struck my brother's home. The first rocket landed but didn't explode.

The second one detonated with a deafening blast. At the time, I was displaced and far from our home.

When I heard about the strike on Kizan Al-Najar, I called my cousin.

He urged me to come immediately to help extract the bodies

of my nieces and nephews from beneath the rubble.

I arrive within eight minutes.

When I reached the scene, I found little Adam lying on the asphalt, severely injured. I found my brother lying further away, also on the

asphalt. We began searching desperately for the other children, but there was no sign of them,

or even of the house. It had been obliterated. Dr. Alla and his wife

had been at work in the hospital when the strike occurred. I was shocked to see her suddenly beside me.

She had run all the way there on foot, without an ambulance or any support, just to reach her children.

Together we pulled three people from under the rubble.

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