The entire building was destroyed by Israeli bombardment. There was nothing wrong with what he saw as he walked over the rubble. It was there that Khalil Khader, a resident of Gaza, drifted into memory with his child's pajama mixed with dust. Pajama baby is fasting. The 18-month-old baby girl was loved by everyone in the family.
Khalil showed a video on his phone to a BBC reporter. While wearing a blue dress, Rosa is seen holding the hands of her elder siblings.
As the video is shot in slow motion, it looks like the children are swaying in the light breeze, they are laughing, playing together. The horrors of the war in the Gaza Strip did not seem to affect their lives.
Khalil is a calm person. Age 36. Working as a computer engineer at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah city.
Khalil is a father of four children. They are 9-year-old Ibrahim, 5-year-old Amal, 2-and-a-half-year-old Keenan and Roza, who is 18 months old.
Khalil's house is only a few minutes away from the hospital. He stepped carefully over the rubble. There are many household items and many things including children's toys.
On the night of October 20, the building was reduced to rubble by Israeli forces. Khalil was working at the hospital that night.
He told the BBC reporter at the scene that a terrible bomb exploded here.
He also said, "After the attack, I saw the neighbors coming to the hospital and asked, where was the bomb attack?" They said it was around your house. That's when I decided to go home to look for my family. Tried calling but couldn't get through to anyone. As you can see (to the reporter)... the whole house has been bombed.'
Eleven family members including Khalil's four children were killed in this blast. The others killed were her two sisters, 70-year-old father, brother, sister-in-law and sister-in-law's two daughters. Their bodies wrapped in white shrouds are also seen in the hospital premises.
Khalil's wife was seriously injured in the blast. He is still under treatment.
Reminiscing about his children, Khalil said, 'I had a dream about all my children. Ibrahim was the first boy in the school. I dreamed of making him a doctor. Amal was very creative, he loved to draw and would show me his drawings. I used to draw with him sometimes. Keenan was very cute—everyone in the family loved him. She took care of her younger sister. But now they are all gone.'
Khamenei called for a boycott of Israel by stopping oil and food exports
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Muslim countries to stop oil and food exports to Israel to stop the bombing of the Gaza Strip.
He made this call in a speech to a group of students in Tehran, according to a Reuters report on Iran's state media.
The bombing of Gaza must stop immediately... Oil and food exports to the Zionist regime (Israel) must be cut off.
, he said.
The Muslim world should not forget that the United States, France and Britain stand against the oppressed Palestinian nation on the crucial issue of Gaza.
One of the shameless acts of the West is to charge Palestinian fighters with terrorism.
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