As the Khoswan family slept, the Israeli military dropped three GBU-39 bombs into their sixth-floor apartment. One of the bombs exploded just outside the parents’ bedroom, leaving the apartment looking as if a tornado had swept through, killing three family members. But they were not the stated target of the attack earlier this month. The Israeli military had dropped the bombs into their home to assassinate a commander of the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad who lived in the apartment below. “But to target the commander and those around him, honestly this is something we didn’t expect.”

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Persons: Jamal Khoswan, Mirvat, Tareq Izzeldeen, Menna Organizations: Palestinian, Islamic, “