The couple founded a private medical compound in Khan Younis, of which Hamdi was the head. His brother, Dr Ali al-Najjar, described him as a loving father who would tend to poorer patients for free.
Their children Yahya, Rakan, Ruslan, Jubran, Eve, Rivan, Saydeen, Luqman and Sidra were all killed in the attack. The eldest was 12 years old and the youngest six-months, according to local media.
Hamdi sustained significant injuries to his brain, lungs, right arm, and kidney in the strike, Dr Milena Angelova-Chee, a Bulgarian doctor working at Nasser hospital, told the BBC last week.
Graeme Groom, a British surgeon working in the hospital who operated on the surviving son, Adam, told the BBC that it was “unbearably cruel” that his mother Alaa, who spent years caring for children as a paediatrician, could lose almost all her own in a single strike.
He said that Adam’s “left arm was just about hanging off, he was covered in fragment injuries and he had several substantial lacerations.”
“Since both his parents are doctors, he seemed to be among the privileged group within Gaza, but as we lifted him onto the operating table, he felt much younger than 11.”
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