On October 22, 2024, two buildings that were sheltering a large Palestinian family were destroyed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip. 68 people in the Deir al-Bala area in the center of the Gaza Strip lost their lives in the Israeli air raid. Palestinian 9-year-old Khaled Joudi was crying in the morgue of Deir al-Bala Hospital, stroking the face of his 8-month-old sister who had died.
Haleed Joudi was wearing a sleeveless T-shirt and was barefoot. His sister looked like a little angel who had been punched in the face. His mother and 12-year-old brother were no longer alive. He first looked at his mother, then at his younger brother Khalil, and then at his sister Miske, and started crying again.
Haleed Joudi whispered, “I was so happy when you were born,” and gently touched her forehead. Tears ran down his cheeks and onto his sister's forehead. Her hair was disheveled. Haled, who would not stop crying, also said goodbye to his mother, father, older brother and baby sister. Only his younger brother, Tamer, aged 7, and Haled, aged 9, survived.
The Jude family, who are Palestinian, have lived together for generations. Some of the family members evacuated to the north of the Gaza Strip when the Israeli army ordered the residents of the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate.Due to an Israeli air raid, a family member was buried alongside the others in a long grave. Khaled Joudi's living conditions were very sad, with no one to look after him, he was very thin and there was not enough food or water. When he slept in the tent, he felt cold and got wet from the rain.
Warning: Khaled Joudeh searches for his killed family members, including his baby sister, Misq, at the morgue in the Deir Al-Balah hospital, on October 22, 2023, After they were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Khaled is the lone surviving member of his immediate family. (Samar Abu Elouf/New York Times)
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