Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza has killed hundreds of family members from the same bloodline, an unprecedented toll on the small community mostly made up of refugees and their descendants.
An Associated Press investigation analysed 10 strikes across the Gaza Strip between October and December that killed over 500 people. Nearly every Palestinian family has suffered grievous, multiple losses. But many have been decimated, particularly in the first months of the war.
This war has proven even deadlier than the displacement from Israel in 1948, said Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian at Columbia University, when 20,000 were killed in what is known as the Nakbah, or catastrophe.
“I don’t think anything like this has happened in modern Palestinian history,” said Khalidi.
Among the families where numerous family members have been killed are the Al-Agha, Abu Naja, Tarzai, Souri, Salem and Doghmush families, as per the investigation.
