The Israeli attack claimed his mother while she was holding and breastfeeding him, and led to the amputation of his left leg.
Reposted from Quds’s Twitter/X, June 21, 2026
Three-month-old infant Mohammad Al-Khatib is in critical condition after a recent Israeli strike that targeted tents sheltering displaced families. The attack claimed his mother while she was holding and breastfeeding him and led to the amputation of his left leg.
Mohammad is now facing the risk of further amputations due to the severity of his injuries and the rapid deterioration of his health. He urgently needs medical evacuation abroad to receive treatment that could save what remains of his limbs amid Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Denial of medical evacuation from Gaza is not new. Israel’s cruelty in this area apparently knows no bounds. Israeli forces have damaged or destroyed cancer treatment facilities in Gaza, along with at least 94% of hospitals. Over 1,500 health workers have been killed. Ambulances have been bombed, and medical aid is being withheld at the border. American politicians have decried Gazans’ plight (often without naming Israel as the culprit), but never leveraged their words with threats of withholding military aid.
Gaza’s Health Ministry recently reported that 17,757 Palestinians have referrals for medical treatment abroad – but Israel has permitted only 1,204 patients to leave through the Rafah and Kerem crossings since the beginning of the “ceasefire,” although the agreement stipulated a minimum of 50 patients be evacuated per day (a total of about 12,000 by now). Over 1,000 have died already while waiting to evacuate.
Israel has overseen the killing of thousands of Gazan children, in different ways from poison to malnourishment to cold to bombs. Here are just a few examples.
Born Under Siege: A Gaza Family Waited 17 Years—Their Baby Survived Six Months
For seventeen years, the Abu Hamad family waited for a child. When he finally arrived, the siege, the winter cold, and Gaza’s collapsing environment took him away.
Six-month-old Yousef Abu Hamad died this week after prolonged exposure to freezing temperatures and sewage pollution near his family’s makeshift shelter in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. His death is one of a growing number of infant fatalities linked not to illness alone, but to the conditions imposed by genocide, displacement, and blockade (continue reading here).
This was no accident. This was murder.
On Tuesday, news got out from Gaza of a terrible tragedy. A pair of newborn twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Gaza’s healthcare sector has been decimated, and medical supplies are in extremely short supply, so the very fact that a woman in Gaza was able to carry twins to term and give birth to healthy infants is nothing less than miraculous.. But alhamdulillah – thank God – mother and babies were doing fine.
The little family were sheltering in an apartment building. They must have felt relatively lucky, as hundreds of thousands of their fellow Palestinians are living in tents or on the streets in the summer heat.
While the proud Daddy, Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan, was out collecting the birth certificates, an Israeli airstrike killed his wife and babies (continue reading here.).
Israel’s War in Gaza Has Killed Over 17,000 Children. These Are the Stories of 28 of Them
“Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres as early as November 6, 2023. His statement was harshly criticized by Israel and dismissed as exaggerated by much of the Israeli public and media. In the 21 months since, the number of casualties in Gaza has largely remained on the margins of Israeli media coverage, including the children killed in the war.
In the weeks before the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran, Israel’s media had begun to briefly mention these figures, influenced in part by growing global media attention, which has made the issue harder to ignore. But the Iran war pushed any deeper engagement with the deaths in Gaza far to the margins, worldwide and in Israel.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 17,121 children were killed in Gaza from the start of the war through to June 15. Of these, 937 were infants under the age of 1. Another 4,517 were between the ages of 1 and 5, 6,325 were aged 6 to 12, and the rest – 5,342 – were minors aged between 13 and 17 (continue reading here).
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