Alaa al-Najjar and her only remaining son, Adam, who was badly injured in the strike, are due to fly to Italy
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A Palestinian doctor whose husband and nine of her 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike has been evacuated from Gaza, bound for Italy with her only surviving child.
Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician, and her badly wounded 11-year-old son, Adam, are due to be taken by ambulance with other critically-ill patients and family members to an airport in Eilat on the Red Sea and then flown to Milan on a plane chartered by the Italian government.
Najjar’s family were killed on 23 May, when their family home in Khan Younis was bombed by Israeli forces. Her husband, Hamdi, had just dropped her at the town’s Nasser hospital where they both worked and had gone home to look after the children when the building was bombed.
