A Palestinian boy, 11 years old, the only survivor of the strike that killed his father and 9 siblings. Still, smile

Warning: This story contains graphical descriptions of injury and death.

Adam, 11, is brilliantly smiling in the face of unimaginable horrors.

The Palestinian boy at Nasser Hospital in Gaza is recovering from the injuries that were injured in an Israeli air strike on May 23 at his home, who killed his father, who was a doctor, all of them nine of his brothers.

“Adam is in good condition. He is much better than I thought would be (),” said Dr. Jaroum Al -Aris, British orthopedic surgeon who cares about the boy. As it happens Nil Kӧksal host.

“It has a small angelic face and illuminates the most wonderful smile.”

Adam and his mother, a pediatrician who was working in Nasser when her husband and children were injured, and they are now the only survivors of their direct family.

And put them, as the groom says, is not unique remotely in Gaza.

“Like a wiped sardines”

Adam’s father, Dr. Hamdi Al -Najjar, died on Saturday from Brain injuries On his home in Khan Yunis.

His other nine children – Yahya, Rakan, Roslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Siden, Luka and Sayeda – were killed in the same strike.

When their mother, Dr. Al -Allah Al -Najjar, heard about the air strike, she ran on foot from the hospital to her home, and the daughter of Akhtar Al -Hajjar, Hamdi, told CBC News last week.

But it was very late. When she arrived, her house was reduced to the rubble, and the bodies of her children were very burned, she could not imagine them.

“Who are you targeting? Children?” The desert said. “This is your strength?

Young children were six months old, and the oldest was 13 years old, according to the brother of Al -Najjar, Ali Al -Najjar.

He, too, rushed to the place of bombing that day.

“The house was like a shattered sardine box,” he told CBC News the next day of the strike, while his brother was still in intensive care.

The Israeli army confirmed that it had made an air strike on Khan Yunis on that day, but he said that it was targeting the suspects in a structure close to the Israeli soldiers.

He said that the army was looking into allegations that “unveiled civilians” were killed, adding that the army had evacuated civilians from the area before the start of the operation.

Magic says that there is no good reason for her uncle and his family should target.

“It was very straight,” she said. “He was very famous in the medical field. He had nothing to do with any political movements.”

Dozens of Palestinians walked at the funeral of Hamdi in Gaza on Saturday.

The doctor served in 14 war, but nothing is bad like this

The groom says he was in regular contact with Adam’s mother, although their talks focused on the health of her remaining son.

“She is ready and professional,” he said. “She is very interested in Adam and its progress.”

The groom says that the entire families that have almost eliminated are equal to the session in Gaza. He works for Islamic charitable assistance in the United Kingdom, and says he served in 14 global conflicts.

“If we put all others together, this will not approach this,” he said. “The number of injured people, the horrific nature of their injuries, and the long disability that is inevitable to exceed anything we have faced so far-I had a long career to take care of the wounded in many wars.”

Only last week, he says, he was working on a seven -year -old boy who lost both his parents and all his brothers. At night, he cried out to a mother who had already left.

“Every (room) operation has such stories,” he said. “When I talk to Palestinian friends and colleagues on this topic, they ignore and say,” This is our life. “

Israel began its attack in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to the Israeli return, and saw 251 hostages in Gaza.

The Israel campaign destroyed a lot of Gaza, killing more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to Ghazan, and left huge areas of the region, including schools, hospitals and residential buildings, in ruin.

The International Court of Justice is achieved Whether the actions of Israel in Gaza constitute genocide, Israel’s claim is strongly denied, which was Repeated by the Human Rights Group Amnesty International.

Last month, Canada joined Britain and France in Israel’s threat to sanctions If he does not stop the renewed military attack in Gaza and raise aid restrictions.

That smile again

As for Adam, the groom says he is noticeably recovered.

When the child first arrived at the operating room a little more than a week ago, he was dirty and badly wounded, as his body was moving with penetration wounds of the explosion power.

He was bleeding from both ears, as a result of infection of the cranial nerve, breaking his arm and left wrist.

The groom says they believe that they will have to amputate his arm, but in the end they were able to save her.

The groom says Adam speaks well, so he is able to communicate with him clearly. But he is not sure how the boy understood what happened to his family.

“Our conversation at a functional level. I try to make friendships with him. I try to make him confident when he sees me,” he said.

“I have a certain way at all to produce this glorious smile he possesses by offering him the chocolate bar.”

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With files from Mohamed Sevis, Yasmine Hassan and Reuters. Interview with Grame GROOM produced by Chris Harbord