An Israeli airstrike decimated a Gaza City home Saturday, but one lucky baby was saved, pulled from the rubble while many of his relatives, including his mother and three brothers were killed in the attack.
The months-old baby, Omar, had what appears to be a cast on his right leg in photos from the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City distributed by the NurPhoto agency. In other pictures, his father could be seen crying over him as he was lying in a hospital bed.
“Thank God I still have Omar,” his father, Muhammad al-Hadidi, said.
The baby was pulled from what remains of a three-story home at the Shati refugee camp where his family had gathered to celebrate the end of Ramadan. At least 10 of the baby’s relatives, including eight children, were killed in the airstrike.
Baby Omar was pulled alive from under the rubble while seven other family members were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp. ZUMAPRESS.comThe baby’s mother and three brothers, aged 6 to 14, were among the dead, and his 11-year-old brother was missing, The Associated Press reported. Another woman and her four children were also killed, and 15 people were injured.
Speaking outside hospital, al-Hadidi said he wants “the unjust world to see these crimes.”


He said the children “were safe in their homes, they did not carry weapons, they did not fire rockets. They were killed wearing their clothes for Eid al-Fitr,” the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, The Times of Israel reported.
Israeli military sources, quoted by the Hebrew-language Channel 12 news, claimed “senior Hamas figures” were meeting in the building at the time, and it is “not clear” how many of them were among the dead, the Times reported.
A woman feeds Palestinian infant boy Omar Al-Hadidi as he lies on a hospital bed after Gaza health officials said an Israeli missile struck a house, killing his mother and four siblings, in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem/REUTERSHamas cited the airstrike as it continued to fire rockets into Israel, sending residents scrambling as sirens wailed in multiple cities.






