Caption: Mother’s reaction after finding out her children were killed in Israeli airstrike
credit: @ytirawi
This is the heartbreaking moment a mother discovered two of her children were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Outside of the Al-Shifa Hospital, in the sealed-off Gaza Strip, a crowd of people fell silent amidst the woman’s desperate cries.
As Israel is in a state of war with Hamas, families in the tiny enclave feel helpless and abandoned, and many outside the hospital felt her pain.
Footage shared on social media shows the woman screaming in desperation in front of the emergency entrance, while a crying child tries to comfort her.
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‘The kids vanished between my hands,’ she yells at people. ‘Where are my kids, please!
‘Enough is enough. We are poor people. My kids were killed without eating first.’
Just yesterday, Metro.co.uk reported on another devastating case outside the Al-Shifa Hospital where a doctor learnt one of the bodies brought to the site was of her husband’s.
Israel’s retaliatory strikes on the blockaded enclave have killed 1,055 people and wounded 5,184.
Palestinian children injured in Israeli strikes are brought to a hospital, in Gaza City (Picture: Shutterstock)
A young girl with cuts all over her face (Picture: Shutterstock)
Around 60% of the casualties are women and children, according to Palestinian officials.
About 2.3 million Palestinians are packed into the narrow coastal Strip, with the situation turning increasingly desperate for them, with no way of fleeing.
The bodies of dead children killed in shelling were covered in blankets and carried by their parents in funeral processions.
Footage emerging from levelled neighbourhoods shows fathers running with their wounded kids in arms to bring them to a hospital.
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