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David__77

(23,879 posts)
Sun Aug 18, 2024, 11:18 AM Aug 2024

Eighteen members of same family killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

An Israel airstrike in Gaza has killed at least 18 people from the same family, even as mediators expressed optimism for an imminent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after 10 months of war.

The airstrike on Saturday hit a house and adjacent warehouse sheltering displaced people at the entrance to the town of Zawaida, according to al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, to where casualties were taken. An Associated Press reporter there counted the dead.

Among those killed was Sami Jawad al-Ejlah, a wholesaler who coordinated with the Israeli military to bring meat and fish to Gaza. The dead also included his two wives, 11 of their children aged two to 22, a grandmother to the children, and three other relatives, according to a list provided by the hospital.

Omar al-Dreemli, a relative, said: “We are in the morgue seeing indescribable scenes of limbs and severed heads and children who are dismembered.”



https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/18/family-killed-israeli-strike-gaza

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Eighteen members of same family killed in Israeli strike on Gaza (Original Post) David__77 Aug 2024 OP
Yet more claudette Aug 2024 #1
Most all Jews are Zionists. Mosby Aug 2024 #2
I don't have a problem claudette Aug 2024 #4
His two wives? Do they mean wife and ex wife perhaps? jimfields33 Aug 2024 #3
He was in a dangerous business. AloeVera Aug 2024 #5

claudette

(4,645 posts)
4. I don't have a problem
Sun Aug 18, 2024, 01:43 PM
Aug 2024

with Jews. Many of my family members are Jews. I have a problem with the Israeli Zionist government that allows the murder of innocent Palestinian men, women and children.

AloeVera

(2,006 posts)
5. He was in a dangerous business.
Sun Aug 18, 2024, 03:05 PM
Aug 2024

Bringing meat and fish into Gaza and hosting "terrorist infrastructure" in his meat warehouse. Quite possible and quite a message to any other businessman in that line of work. /S

But you'd think Israel's precision targeting would spare the house with his family next door. Unless of course Israel's Where's Daddy? AI was at work.

If they can't have meat, let the children of Gaza scrounge in the rubble for cake.


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