GAZA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The Israeli air strike hit Mohammed Hamdan's Gaza home soon after Islam's evening prayer on Tuesday, he said, killing 35 members of his extended family across three generations from Kamal, aged 70, to Rasmi, aged seven.
The Hamdan family is one of many in Gaza eviscerated by an unprecedented air and artillery bombardment that has killed more than 10,000 people according to health authorities in the tiny, crowded, Hamas-run enclave.
Israel's military has entirely encircled northern Gaza under cover of a weeks-long barrage that has also pounded southern areas such as Khan Younis, where the Hamdan family lived.
[1/3]Palestinian Mohammed Hamdan, who lost 35 family members of three generations in an Israeli air strike, stands on the rubble of his family home that was destroyed in the strike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 7, 2023.
Through those hard decades the Hamdan family expanded and its Khan Younis home was the centre of its life.
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