Yaqeen was designed at war. She died in a fireball.
An Israeli bomb killed the 5-month-old child in his family’s apartment, next to a Carrefour shopping center in Tal al-Hawa, a district of Gaza City.
His father, Ali Aoun Sbeita, 30, and his mother, Saja Ammar Sbeita, 25, burned to death in the same strike.
The next day, the video taken by a crew from NBC News on the ground outside the morgue of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City showed that Yaqeen’s grandfather, Ammar Shalah, 50, holding his body wrapped in a white leaf-virgin with the exception of blood plates.
“Does she strut about Israel?” Asked Nasar Sbeita, 45, Yaqeen’s uncle. Referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he added: “A 5 -month -old girl: here are the targets of Netanyahu.”
Yaqeen’s grandmother (Shalah’s wife) yelled and relatives held her. Between tears, she shouted that Saja was breastfeeding her baby when the family was killed.
A few minutes later, the three bodies joined the flow of corpses transported from the hospital and through a host of spectators in distress to a patch of cobblestones where funeral rites were carried out. Yaqeen’s shroud was opened to show his face, gray and motionless.
The Israeli army did not respond to the request for comments from NBC News on the reasons why it had targeted the apartment where the family was staying.
At least 60 Palestinians were killed on Monday by Israeli air strikes and shots, according to Marwan al-Hams, director of Gaza field hospitals. The figures include those captured by NBC News images on the ground.
More than 56,000 people were killed in Gaza and thousands more seriously injured since Israel launched its offensive after the terrorist attacks led by Hamas, according to health officials in the enclave. About 1,200 people were killed and around 250 hostage in Israel that day.
More than 50,000 people killed and injured in Gaza were children, said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and Africa in May. “These children – lives that should never be reduced to figures – are now part of a long heartbreaking list of unimaginable horror,” he said in a statement.
The Israeli attacks in Gaza continued during the night on Wednesday, killing 58 people since dawn, including 45 in the city of Khan Yunis and several others waiting for help, according to Al-Hams.
In Washington, the talks of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas resumed this week after Netanyahu met President Donald Trump in the White House.
The two leaders discussed the war in Gaza, now in its 22nd month, including plans for a 60-day ceasefire offered by the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff.
Witkoff later told the White House journalists that the two parties were about to reach an agreement that had so far been deadlocked about the end of the end of the fighting.
After the meeting, Netanyahu said that the military campaign of Israel in Gaza would continue that the negotiators were working on a cease-fire.
“We still have to finish work in Gaza, release all our hostages, eliminate and destroy the military and governmental capacities of Hamas,” he said.
At a short distance from the Carrefour shopping center, Amer Al-Katnani, 38, and his 14-year-old son, Ahmad, were inside a jeep parked near the maternity doors of the Al-Shifa hospital when an Israeli drone struck the vehicle, making him light in an Inferno Blazing.
The spectators withdrew the bodies of four people killed in the explosion, including the father and the son. Their heads, exploded by the force of the explosion, were reduced to tufts of flesh while their bodies founded partly inside the car.
The father and the son were food merchants, said their family.
The plumes of smoke surrounded the puree car while the bodies were wrapped in blankets and taken to a morgue in the hospital, showed video sequences captured by NBC News.
Subsequently, the children recovered the explosion site for garbage, including the torn cushion from the car seat.
