A five-month-old baby, allegedly found next to the body of his dead mother, was pulled from the rubble in Gaza following a bombing raid by Israeli forces last night . According to the Daily Mail, the strike by Israeli warplanes ousted a family at the Al Sati refugee camp in the area. Ten people from the same family lost their lives, including two women and eight children. Photos published by the international media show nurses holding the baby boy in Al-Sifa hospital, after he was rescued from the ruins of the three-story building where the unfortunate family was, and which collapsed after the Israeli attack.
“The children were safe at home, they had no weapons, they did not fire rockets,” their father complained from Sifa hospital. The children were killed “while wearing their good clothes for Eid al-Fitr,” he said, referring to the Palestinian custom of wearing good clothes during the holiday, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement that “a horrific massacre in the al-Sati camp”. At least 132 people have been killed in Gaza since Monday, including 32 children and 21 women, according to Palestinian authorities, while another 950 have been injured.
The announcement of the tragedy was made earlier by the Palestinian rescue service, after another day of bloody incidents in the West Bank and the arrival of an American mediator for negotiations. State Department official in charge of Palestinian and Israeli affairs Hady Amr is expected to meet with Israeli officials in Jerusalem today and then travel to the West Bank to hold talks with Palestinian officials. He wants to encourage the two sides to agree on a “sustainable calm,” said State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter.
Source: Daily Mail
