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When Abu Anas Al-Hadidi heard the bombs fall on Shati refugee camp, Gaza, he immediately feared for his nephews. He arrived at a scene of abject horror, where people were digging into the rubble with tools and their bare hands as they desperately tried to retrieve people from the wreckage.
The house was destroyed, and all four of Mr Hadidi’s nephews had been killed: Suhayb, Yehya, Abdel Rahman and Osama, who was just six years old.
“I saw a massacre, I was shocked,” Mr Hadidi told the Telegraph. “The dead were pulled from one room out of the rubble, it seems they had been staying together in the same room.”
As Mr Hadidi went to the morgue to identify the bodies, his brother stayed behind to help with the rescue efforts.
Five other members of the Abu Huttub family, who were also in the house, had been killed, bringing the death toll of the extended family to nine. Alaa Abu Huttub, the house’s owner, was still missing as of Monday night.
However, there was one survivor: five-month-old Omar al-Hadidi, who was found in his dead mother’s arms. Israel says the camp was hit during airstrikes on several high-ranking Hamas officials and their supplies, claiming that the Islamist group had used families in the area as “human shields.”
Though the Israeli military says it takes care to avoid civilian casualties, such as by sending advance warnings of its attacks, Mr Hadidi said his relatives “did not receive any warning from the Israeli side.”
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Article URL : https://news.yahoo.com/gaza-pummelled-fresh-israeli-airstrikes-014904190.html