Palestinian Man Loses Entire Family To Israeli Missile Attack... 72,000 Palestinians Have Moved Out Of Their Homes Because Of Israeli Missile Strikes

Muhammad al-Hadidi, 37, a Palestinian man who lost his whole family except for one son due to the Israeli aggression on Gaza. An Israeli airstrike that hit a house in a Gaza refugee camp killed at least 10 Palestinians from the same extended family overnight, eight of them children, according to witnesses. A 5-month-old infant was pulled from the rubble alive. 

 The father of four of the children who died, Mohammed al-Hadidi, told reporters that his wife and their five sons had gone to Shati to visit her brother for Eid al-Fitr, the Islamic feasting holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. 

“They were sleeping in their homes,” “They weren’t holding weapons, they weren’t firing rockets and they weren’t harming anyone.” 

 Initially home to 23,000 refugees who fled Lydda, Jaffa, Be’er Sheva and other areas of Palestine in 1948, the camp has since grown to house more than 85,000 people. All of them reside in an area of about a fifth of a square mile, making it one of the most crowded places in the world, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as Unrwa, which works with Palestinian refugees. 

Tens of thousands of Gazans seek cover from Israeli airstrikes, crowded shelters could set off another wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the already overcrowded shelters. Israeli airstrikes have destroyed residential areas in Gaza causing many to flee seeking shelter, fearing for their lives, and seeking protection for their family members. At least 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced since the beginning of the conflict with Israel last week, the United Nations said on Tuesday.