DayofPal– In a devastating Israeli airstrike on Tuesday morning, over 25 members of the Al-Kahlout family were killed in their home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. The attack obliterated the family, erasing their name entirely from the civil registry and leaving behind only the echoes of their existence.
Local sources reported that at least 25 family members were killed, including the grandparents, their children, and grandchildren.
Haaretz newspaper reported that entire families in the Gaza Strip were crushed by Israeli airstrikes that in some cases killed four generations within the same family.
The Al-Nasr, Doghmush, Salem, Al-Masri and Al-Astal families in Gaza have one thing in common: they were all removed from the civil registry, Haaretz reported.
In early September tens of thousands of people remained in the northern Strip,” a Gaza journalist told Haaretz, adding that in such situations, family members stay in a single place that serves as a refuge.”
“In these families, dozens of people have been killed, and in some even over 100,” a Gazan journalist said. “They’ve been erased from the Palestinian Population Registry and there’s no trace and no documentation of them – not even someone who will tell their story.”
Accordingly, the members of the Al-Nasr family – a grandfather, grandmother, mothers, fathers, grandchildren, children, uncles, aunts and cousins – were staying in the same apartment building.
“When a bomb hits a building, the immediate result is usually the killing of whoever is inside,” the journalist said. “That’s what happened to the al-Nasr family: An entire building above them was bombed, and they were killed.”
The story of the Al-Nasrs became known when it was covered in the foreign media. According to the civil defense authorities in Gaza, 93 people were killed in the bombing, while over 40 are considered missing because their bodies have not yet been found in the rubble.
“This isn’t the first time that such a thing has happened,” the journalist said.
Beit Hanoun has endured unrelenting Israeli assaults and a suffocating siege since October 5.,2024 under the so-called “Generals’ Plan,” the Israeli army has been executing a campaign aimed at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip, turning the region into a tragic epicenter of displacement and devastation.
Since October 2023, Israeli forces have carried out over 7,160 massacres across the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry. These attacks have erased at least 1,410 Palestinian families from the civil registry, leaving an indelible mark of loss and devastation on the region.
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