Princess Aisha was only 17 days old.
– I have a message for Netanyahu, says Susan Zoroub.
On Tuesday, two of her grandchildren were killed; Princess Aisha, 17 days, and Ahmed Zorob, two years.
-Does he think he will achieve anything by killing these children? Have they succeeded now? Did he achieve what he wanted?
The family was sleeping when an Israeli air strike bombed their home on Tuesday night. Although two of her sons had an apartment on the upper floors of the building, the entire family stayed on the first floor because they were afraid of air strikes.
This is still not enough to protect them. Pictures show the Zorob family home in Rafah in ruins:
According to Zoroob, 27 family members were killed in the attack. Hamas says 20 people were killed in the attack, according to Agence France-Presse.
– They took us out from under the rubble and brought us here, she says.
Reuters and Associated Press met with her at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah. And here she is with the parents of the murdered children. Father Mahmoud Zourub was injured.
On Tuesday, at least 100 people were killed, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The attacks that occurred during the past twenty-four hours targeted hospitals in several places in Gaza and Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, from where tens of thousands fled in the hope that they would be safe from the bombs. Attacks also continue in Jabalia in the north.
Several thousand Palestinians are also missing under the rubble of bombed buildings.
After the attack that occurred in Rafah on Tuesday night, dozens of mourners gathered to perform funeral prayers outside the hospital. Before burying the dead on Tuesday morning.
Journalist Adel Zoroub was also killed in the airstrike.
He joins the ranks of journalists killed in Gaza since the outbreak of war.
On December 14, Al Jazeera wrote that 56 journalists had been killed in Gaza since October 7, at least 13 of whom were killed while covering the war.
At least 19,667 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, according to the Ministry of Health.
At least 52,586 people have been infected, according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. The death toll has risen by 214 since Monday’s update, while hundreds have been infected in the past 24 hours.
1,200 Israelis were killed in a Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
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