Teen recounts horror after his mom and brother were burned alive by Israeli strike on Gaza hospital
When an Israeli airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah sparked a fire that swept through a cluster of tents Monday night, 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalu was sleeping near his mother, Alaa, 38.
When an Israeli airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah sparked a fire that swept through a cluster of tents Monday night, 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalu was sleeping near his mother, Alaa, 38.
In a video that circulated widely on social media, Shaban's arms could be seen reaching from the enveloping flames, horrifying a world that watched him being burned alive.
In an interview with NBC News, Shaban's 17-year-old brother, Mohammed al-Dalu, described the Israeli attack that killed his mother and brother, saying he saw something fall on Shaban's leg, pinning him down. He tried to run into the tent to save his brother, but several men held him back.
"No one let me see my brother Shaban," he said. "My heart was burning."
Shaban al-Dalu, right, and Mohammed, second from right, with their family before the war.GoFundMeTheir father, Ahmed al-Dalu, his face covered in burn dressings and his right eye swollen shut, said in an interview with Al Jazeera that he'd been thrown from the tent by the blast's impact, but managed to run back to pull his daughter and his youngest son out of the tent before it was engulfed in flames.
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