On May 23, the home of doctors Hamdi al-Najjar and Alaa al-Najjar were hit by a strike in the Khan Younis, Gaza. The attack killed nine of their 10 children. The sole surviving child was severely injured as a result.
Hamdi was taken to the hospital before succumbing to his injuries Saturday. Alaa was working a shift at the Nasser Hospital at the time of the attack.
Of the 11 members of the family, only Alaa and one of their children remain.
During a debate on Piers Morgan Uncensored, lawyer Natasha Hausdorff argued that it “couldn’t be further from the fact” to say that Israel is targeting children. When Morgan brought up the al-Najjar family, Hausdorff claimed the reporting was largely based on hearsay. A stunned Morgan then pressed Hausdorff:
MORGAN: Wait a minute, you don’t believe that those children were killed?
HAUSDORFF: I have seen conflicting accounts and I want that story to be properly investigated–
MORGAN: Wow.
HAUSDORFF: –before the international media runs with it.
MORGAN: You think those two parents — one of whom, I think, operated on one of the children — you think that those two doctors, the parents, they just made it up–
HAUSDORFF: Why are those children there?
MORGAN: –that nine of their 10 children had been blown to pieces by an Israeli air strike?
HAUSDORFF: If this is true–
MORGAN: You don’t believe it?
HAUSDORFF: Why on earth was artificially-generated imagery used to promote this story when it first happened? We’ve seen time and time again–
MORGAN: I gotta say, I think what you’ve just said about that family is despicable. I’m sorry. It’s despicable.
By: Ahmad Austin Jr.
Source: Mediaite
