Infant reunited with father after miraculously surviving Israeli airstrike
A child was reunited with his father after miraculously surviving an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
The infant identified as Omar was rescued on Saturday morning after being pulled from a debris at Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza.
As per reports, 10 family members including eight children and two women of the family died in the Israeli strike.
The infant, who was pictured wrapped in a blanket, was taken to the nearest hospital for treatment. A doctor at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza said they are treating the child’s fractured leg and other wounds. The father of the child was later reunited with him.
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Talking to media, the father said that his wife and four sons, aged 14 to six, along with another woman and her four children were killed.
“They went to relatives to celebrate Eid,” he said.
Al-Hadidi said his baby boy Omar was his only child who survived the attack. He said: “Thank God I still have Omar.”
He asked what did his children do to Israel to deserve such violence.
“Were they throwing stones at the Israeli forces or attacking them that they targeted his children in their sleep.”