Her extended family was asleep when the strike leveled their apartment building in Rafah before dawn, said Suzan Zoarab, the infant’s grandmother and survivor of the blast. Hospital officials said 27 people were killed, among them Amira and her 2-year old brother, Ahmed. The Zoarab family were among the few Palestinians in Gaza who remained in their own homes. When the strike hit, it killed at least 13 members of the Zoarab family, including a journalist, Adel, as well as displaced people sheltering nearby. As Mahmoud lay in his bed at Rafah’s Kuwati Hospital, Suzan brought him the two children for a final goodbye before they were buried.

Source: Ethiopian News December 19, 2023 19:27 UTC