Israeli Aircraft Hovered As Abdul-Salam Al-Banna Watched Wife And Children Die In Gaza

A Palestinian father, Abdul-Salam Al-Banna, said he returned to Gaza after more than five years in Malaysia and that on the morning of October 7 the city woke to the sounds of missiles and explosions.

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He described his wife and children perishing in the very first moment and the roof of the house collapsing on his shoulders, while Israeli aircraft hovered above him as he lay buried under the rubble.

Haaretz

He told of being trapped in complete darkness and among the rubble, then waking days later to discover his wife and children had died while he came out alive bearing alone the memory of the last moment.

A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defense said the unit’s vehicles had stopped operating, and an official of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society said 80% of the Gaza Strip’s population is sleeping today in the streets inside tents.

The International for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People said the issue of the occupation’s targeting of children must be pursued to prosecute Israeli leaders.

In the West Bank village of Al-A'sa'asa near Jenin, Reuters verified that settlers dug up the grave of Hussein al-A'sa'asa after he was buried, forcing his son Mohammed to remove the body and re-inter him within hours.

Mohammed said the settlers threatened to exhume the grave with a bulldozer, and he told Reuters that when they went to the cemetery they found that they had exhumed it and were almost at the tomb.

Al-Yawm as-Sabi'

The Israeli army said the funeral was conducted in coordination with it, and that it did not issue instructions to the family to rebury their father, adding that it sent soldiers to the site after a report of a confrontation with settlers who were digging in the area.

Ajit Songai, head of the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, condemned the incident, saying: "No one is safe, living or dead."

Peace Now said Netanyahu's government approved the re-establishment of Sanur about a year ago, and construction is proceeding rapidly.

In Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Women’s Affairs said that in a statement issued on March 8, it was confirmed that 21,193 war widows had lost their husbands since October 7, 2023.

“My children cried in fear during the war and begged to return to Malaysia”

Al-Yawm as-Sabi'

The same statement said there are more than 6,020 families that were wiped out, and it added that 2,700 families were erased from civil records.

It also said the number of female martyrs since the start of the genocide war reached more than 12,500, including more than 9,000 mothers, and that more than 55% of the martyrs are children, women, and the elderly.

In the West Bank, Haaretz described the aftermath of the “man buried twice,” saying Israeli settlers ordered the family of Hussein Al-Asasa to exhume his body, and that the goal was achieved.

Haaretz quoted the settlers’ threat as: "or we'll throw it to the dogs."