On Saturday, May 15, in the morning, the Israeli army attacked the Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza.
Ten people died, including eight children.
Only one survivor: Omar, 5 months old, was found clinging to the arms of his deceased mother.
The family gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the month of Ramadan. Amid the debris of the house of their relatives where they had spent the night, devastated by an Israeli missile, the emergency services found the five-month-old child, clinging to the arms of his mother, Maha Abou Hattab, deceased, like his four other children, Souhayb, 13, Yahya, 11, Abderrahmane, 8, and Oussama, 6.
“The children had put on their nice Eid clothes, took their toys and went home for the party.
», Says Mohammad al-Hadidi, the father of Omar.
"They called to ask if they could stay and sleep there (with their mother) I said OK."
The father went home alone and went to bed.
In the middle of the night, he was awakened by the crash of an explosion that shook his neighborhood in Al-Shati refugee camp, one of the most populous of the eight camps in the Gaza Strip. .
"I rushed there as fast as I could but when I got there there was nothing left… but ruins.
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Two days after the tragedy, little Omar still has a swollen face.
Her left leg, whose bones have been broken in three places according to doctors, is clamped in a cast that appears to be too large for her tiny member.
His father cradles him between two sobs, slides his hand over his skull covered with still red scars, does not take his eyes off him.
The Israeli army claims to have targeted "senior officials" of the Islamist movement Hamas, in power in Gaza, who were in an apartment in the Al-Shati camp.
Palestinian relief efforts did not report any victims other than the eight children and their two mothers.
Army airstrikes killed at least 200 Palestinians, including at least 59 children, in one week, and injured more than 1,300.