GAZA CITY—The bodies arrived to Al-Shifa hospital in quick succession on Wednesday morning following Israel’s brutal overnight assault on Gaza City. They were carried into the hospital morgue on stretchers covered in grey blankets and emerged soon afterwards wrapped in white shrouds and placed on the ground. Men performed funeral prayers, women and children wept over their loved ones before the bodies were carried away for burial.
Israeli strikes on one building in the Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City killed multiple members of the Haboush family.
“It was about 1:30 in the morning—and we were sleeping peacefully. There was nothing around us, nothing near us. We were even far from the yellow line. We were sleeping peacefully in our house when they shelled it,” Abu Mohammed Haboush told Drop Site outside Al-Shifa hospital, his voice breaking with sorrow. “My son was martyred, my nephew was martyred, my niece was martyred, and other children were martyred.” ……more
