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Gazan doctor loses nine children in Israeli strike

A Bulgarian doctor in Gaza says the doctor’s husband is in a “life-threatening” condition.

A Palestinian doctor was at work in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when nine of her ten children were killed and her husband wounded by an Israeli airstrike. It is the latest tragedy as Israel’s military campaign continues to place a huge toll on the civilian population. The Israeli military says “the claim regarding harm to uninvolved civilians is under review”. We hear from a Bulgarian doctor who is working at the hospital.

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(Picture: Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis. Credit: Getty)

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