On Oct. 7, an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed 15 members of the al-Dos family, including three generations. The attack resulted in the deaths of elderly individuals, adults, and children, leaving the entire family devastated. Amnesty International and the Palestinian Ministry of Health have reported that numerous Palestinian families have been wiped out by Israeli airstrikes during this period.
n Oct. 7, around 8:20 p.m., 15 members and three generations of the al-Dos family were killed by an Israeli airstrike after it struck their three-story residential building in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City .
Relatives, neighbors, and rescue teams spent more than six hours removing their bodies from beneath the rubble. “Our entire family has been destroyed,” Mohammad al-Dos, Adel’s sibling, told Amnesty International. Mohammad’s five-year-old son Rakan was among eight other relatives who were also killed. by Amnesty in which airstrikes launched by Israeli forces between Oct. 7 and October 12 wiped out entire Palestinian families.
Amnesty verified the information on families by sending a Gaza-based fieldworker who interviewed 17 survivors and other eyewitnesses, visited attack sites, and collected testimony and other evidence, according to Callamard.
The same attack also killed 19 family members of 61-year-old Fawzi Naffar, including his wife, children and grandchildren. Naffar had only been able to retrieve the remains of his daughter-in-law and his “son’s shoulder,” according to the report.The erasure of whole families from history is not a new practice, says Prof. Dina Matar, who focuses on Palestine at SOAS at the University of London.
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