Six members of Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya’s family, killed while he worked at Al-Shifa Hospital

Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya is the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. While he was at work on Saturday, September 20, the bodies of six members of his family were brought to the hospital: his brother, two of his brother’s sons, his nephew’s wife, and two of their children. An Israeli airstrike had hit the family home in the Al Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. Seven other people were wounded in the attack.

According to The Times of Israel, the Israeli military said Dr. Salmiya’s brother was “a sniper for Hamas [who] was preparing to carry out an imminent terror attack against IDF troops.” 

But The Times said Dr. Salmiya denied that, saying, “My brother is a 57-year-old man who suffers from several illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes, and he has severe vision impairment — and they claim he was a sniper? This is pure fabrication.”

More at CNN and The Times of Israel