{"id":35072,"date":"2026-07-23T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35072"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:21:02","slug":"israel-firebombed-a-family-home-where-children-were-sleeping-in-latest-killing-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=35072","title":{"rendered":"Israel Firebombed a Family Home Where Children Were Sleeping in Latest Killing Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

GAZA CITY\u2014The charred shell of the Al-Masri family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City was still smoldering on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the Israeli military bombed it, killing Firas and Salsabeel al-Masri and their four children\u2014Faryal, Salma, Amira and Naim\u2014as they slept.The airstrike came without warning in the middle of the night, destroying the upper floor of the simple two-story structure and setting it ablaze. \u201cWe were asleep in the middle of the night, at around 2 a.m. or so, when we heard a huge explosion,\u201d Abu Youssef Al-Masri, the children\u2019s grandfather, told Drop Site as he stood in front of the partially collapsed home. \u201cWe realized the house had been struck. The house collapsed and caught fire.\u201dThe fire spared nothing inside; family belongings burnt to ash lay among broken cinder blocks, the walls that remained standing blackened with soot.\u201cThe house burned completely. It was my brother\u2019s home\u2014he, his wife, and their four children. Burned until it was charred. My brother\u2019s entire family has been erased,\u201d Mohammed Al-Masri, the brother of Firas, said. \u201cThey burned before our eyes and we couldn\u2019t do anything.\u201d He spoke standing at the graveyard where the family of six was buried on Tuesday afternoon.The bodies were carried by relatives wrapped in white shrouds through the rubble-strewn cemetery to be laid to rest. Abu Youssef stood in the middle of the shallow graves and placed the small body of his granddaughter, Amira, next to her mother as Israeli drones buzzed incessantly overhead. \u201cThe whole world is watching us,\u201d Mohammed said. \u201cThere is no ceasefire in effect, the war hasn\u2019t stopped, and no one cares about us.\u201d<\/a>Relatives bury Firas and Salsabeel al-Masri and their four children after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza City on July 21, 2026. Video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.The attack on Tuesday came amid a particularly brutal and escalated Israeli assault across Gaza over the past several days, as the world\u2019s attention has been distracted by the renewed U.S. war with Iran. Daily airstrikes, shelling, quadcopter attacks, and shootings have targeted residential buildings, tent encampments, civilian vehicles, a funeral procession, a police station, and a hospital-turned-shelter, killing dozens of Palestinians across the enclave over the past week alone. At the same time, Israeli ground troops have been pushing further into Gaza, steadily extending the \u201cyellow line\u201d westward, taking more land, and driving the Palestinian population onto an ever-shrinking territory.\u201cIt\u2019s not simply that the resumption of the war in Iran provides cover; it\u2019s also the fact that the war has largely been a failure from an Israeli perspective, and the Israeli state will look to compensate for this failure elsewhere before a new regional balance takes shape,\u201d Nasser Abourahme, a professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College, told Drop Site. \u201cIt\u2019s most important to remember that the genocide itself has both stalled and never stopped. For all the horrific and unprecedented destruction and death, Israel hasn\u2019t yet achieved any of its core aims: the ethnic cleansing of the Strip, the disarming of the resistance factions, or the resettlement of the Strip.\u201dThe latest killing spree has brought the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since a so-called ceasefire went into effect in October 2025 to 1,180\u2014including over 250 children\u2014with 127 being killed in the first three weeks of July. Over 3,800 have been injured. The total recorded death toll since Israel launched its genocidal assault in October 2023 is now over 73,300 killed, with nearly 174,000 injured, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry.On Monday, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Al-Yemen Al-Saeed Hospital building in the Jabaliya refugee camp,\u00a0killing\u00a0at least four people and wounding several more. Like many hospitals in Gaza, the facility entirely ceased functioning during the war and is instead being used primarily as a shelter for displaced Palestinians.\u201cI went out to visit my friend near Al-Yemen Al-Saeed and suddenly there was a very large explosion, two consecutive explosions,\u201d Youssef Akasha, an eyewitness who was just meters away from the attack, told Drop Site as he stood outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where the dead and wounded were being brought. Bloodied children were carried out of ambulances while bodies wrapped in blankets were put on gurneys. \u201cThe children were having fun, playing football, and suddenly they started screaming. We went directly to Al-Yemen Al-Saeed\u2026we found the place destroyed and children were lying on the ground, women screaming, and men running to rescue the wounded.\u201dOne of the worst attacks came on Friday, when Israel\u00a0bombed\u00a0a funeral procession outside the Ahmed Yassin Mosque in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least eight mourners as they gathered to bury a man killed just hours earlier. Bodies lay strewn on the blood-soaked ground. One man was blown in half, his legs torn off his body as crowds of people screaming on the street tried to rescue the wounded. At Al-Awda hospital, injured children lay wide-eyed and silent on hospital beds as doctors rushed to treat them. One man knelt and embraced a bloodied corpse lying on a gurney, unable to let go.\u201cIt was a very big attack and there was a large number of martyrs,\u201d Medhat Saleh, an eyewitness who was wounded in his right arm, told Drop Site. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t have imagined they would bomb a funeral of this size. Many children, women, and men\u2026A massacre in every sense of the word. The people were piled on top of each other, torn apart.\u201d He continued, \u201cIt\u2019s gotten much, much worse. In recent days, this has become a daily occurrence.\u201dThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, made note of the escalated Israeli assault in a\u00a0statement\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cThe Israeli military has intensified its attacks in Gaza in recent days, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians\u2014children, women and men\u2026Nine months after the announcement of a ceasefire, still, nowhere is safe for Palestinians in Gaza,\u201d Kheetan said, noting that the UN had documented 57 Palestinians killed between July 13 and July 20 alone. \u201cMeanwhile, the Palestinian population in Gaza remains trapped in an ever-shrinking area, with the \u2018yellow line\u2019 constantly being moved westwards by the Israeli occupying power, presenting a continuous threat to life as the Israeli military appears to routinely fire on Palestinians for mere presence in the vicinity of that line\u2026The violations, the suffering and the misery that continue to be imposed on the Palestinians in Gaza cannot be ignored.\u201d As part of the October 2025 agreement, Israeli troops withdrew to the \u201cyellow line,\u201d a boundary running roughly parallel to the coastline and cutting off large swathes of north and south Gaza, that gave Israel control of 53% of the enclave. The move was supposed to mark the beginning of an eventual phased withdrawal back to a \u201cbuffer zone\u201d at the border with Israel. Yet over the past nine months, the Israeli military has instead steadily pushed further westward in areas along the yellow line, taking more Palestinian land and placing yellow concrete blocks in some places to indicate their new line of control, which is now estimated to encompass closer to 70% of Gaza,\u00a0according\u00a0to Israeli military officials.\u201cThe escalation of the killing, the expansion of the so-called yellow line in new land grabs, and the agitation of politicians and the settler movement for renewed Jewish settlement in Gaza all point to the fact that Israel\u2019s endgame remains the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and its full conquest one way or another,\u201d Abourahme said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the so-called ceasefire didn\u2019t stop the genocide, it only modulated its tempo and intensity.\u201dFor the past several days, Israeli ground troops have launched a sustained attack on areas near the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, including aerial bombing, shooting, and shelling attacks, razing land with bulldozers, and issuing displacement orders to force residents to flee their homes and shelters and drive them eastward.\u201cToday, they moved the yellow line here. The day before, they bombed the area, so we left. We spent one more night at home, then we had to leave,\u201d Umm Salem Dawla, a resident displaced from the area, told Drop Site. \u201cWe gathered our belongings and left them at the camp. I keep saying I\u2019ll go and sit by the cemetery. What can I tell you? What kind of life is this?\u201dOn Wednesday, the troops pulled back and residents in the area found yellow concrete blocks placed at the Dawlah junction on Salah al-Din street\u2014the main north-south thoroughfare running the length of the enclave.<\/a>The Israeli military forced residents to flee from the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City and placed yellow blocks on Salah al-Din Street on July 22, 2026. Video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.\u201cThe Israelis started shelling the area, tanks started firing at us and at our home, so we fled because the situation was extremely difficult\u2026the tanks are always visible in the street, firing at our homes, and the quadcopters are constantly overhead. They don\u2019t leave us alone. Twenty-four hours a day, there is shelling and gunfire,\u201d Assem Dawla, another displaced resident of Zeitoun, said. \u201cAs you can see, we\u2019re now taking out our belongings and leaving because the occupation has advanced the yellow line to Salah al-Din street. There is no longer any possibility of life here. Life in Zeitoun has been wiped out. There is no hope left and no way to live here anymore.\u201dThe Israeli military\u2019s encroachment to the Dawlah junction in effect prevents Palestinians in this area of Gaza City from accessing Salah al-Din road and the rest of the enclave further south.\u201cI fear that all of Gaza will end up inside the occupation\u2019s new boundaries. Netanyahu is now talking about taking 67% to 70% of the Gaza Strip, but I believe he wants to control all of it. There won\u2019t be anywhere left for us. We\u2019ll all be living under the control and domination of the Israeli army,\u201d Dawla said. \u201cThe war is not over. We\u2019re still living in a state of fear, greater even than when the war was ongoing.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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