He is among the very last survivors of his Gaza family, a clan so close they knew without thinking how blood and marriage bound them across generations and city blocks.
Then, branch by branch, 173 of Youssef Salem’s relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes in a matter of days in December.
By spring that toll had risen to 270.
Bones and flesh strewn over the ruins of family homes. Blond curls of a young cousin peeking through bricks. Unrecognizable bodies piled on a donkey cart.
Lines of burial shrouds.
These images are what survivors are left with from hundreds of families in Gaza like the al-Aghas, Salems and Abu Najas.
To a degree never seen before, Israel is killing entire Palestinian families, a loss even more devastating than the physical destruction and the massive displacement.
An Associated Press investigation identified at least 60 Palestinian families where at least 25 people were killed — sometimes four generations from the same bloodline — in bombings between October and December, the deadliest and most destructive period of the war.
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@PacifiedChoughSocialist2yrs2Y
Another term for a targeted extermination of entire families based on nationality or religion or both is Holocaust.
Go and lodge your complaint with the Hamas complaint bureau. I'm sure they'll be sympathetic.
@RadicalOliviaPatriot2yrs2Y
They could have surrendered 8 months ago, or 7 months ago, or 6 months ago... and release the hostages while they were still alive. Too late now, bad decisions have consequences.
@Feder4l1stEggsGreen2yrs2Y
Who wiped them out? How did the 60 people ‘lose’ their families?
@BallotBoxArtSocialist2yrs2Y
I hate how they never name Israel/IDF.
I'm Jewish and have been continuously taught how entire families died in the Holocaust due to the Nazis. How can someone see this happening today and not be able to call out the perpetrators?
@R3ferendumTimDemocrat2yrs2Y
Don’t start a war if you can’t finish it. Those families didn’t look too sad when they were driving the bodies of dead 10/7 Nova party goers through the streets or when they were holding hostages on behalf of Humas.
Genocide is not defence.
@R3ferendumTimDemocrat2yrs2Y
This is war, as was started by the 10/7 attack. Look up genocide and war to discern the difference. Humas/ Palestinians should not have attacked and then expected Israel not to respond. Foolish.
Only an enemy would fabricate a lie to fool you into sending them tens of billions and unconditional support. Israel is the biggest liability to the US and has proven over decades that there is no low low enough for them. Liars.
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