Masha Midhath   19 May 2021 - 06:41 PM
A nurse holds a Omar al-Hadidi, at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City early on May 15, 2021.
A nurse holds a Omar al-Hadidi, at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City early on May 15, 2021.
After the Israeli airstrikes, rescue workers pulled the five-month-old from the arms of his dead mother early Saturday. The baby boy Omar al-Hadidi, is the only surviving child of his father Mohammad al-Hadidi after Israeli airstrikes killed his wife and four other sons in the night.

"I have no one left in the world but you," said the 37-year-old father as cradled his baby boy Omar.

All his other children -- Suhayb, 13, Yahya, 11, Abderrahman, 8, and Osama, 6, passed away in the bombing along with their mother Maha Abu Hattab, 36, after an Israeli airstrike struck al-Shati Refugee Camp without advance warning during the night.

"They've gone to find God, we don't want to stay around here for much longer," the bereaved father said. "We will meet them soon, you and I. Oh God, let it not be too long."

According to International media, Israeli attacks have killed over 60 children from Palestine. The human rights groups have repeatedly condemned strikes that have killed women and children in the overcrowded territory of some 2 million inhabitants. Meanwhile, Israel claims it is targeting armed militants, including the Islamist Hamas group running the Gaza Strip.