'Who will call me Dad?' Tears of Gaza father who lost 103 relatives - BBC News

Ahmad al-Ghuferi's wife, mother and daughters were killed when a strike hit the home where they sheltered.

18 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage caption, Ahmad al-Ghuferi was stuck in the West Bank when a bomb killed 103 members of his family in Gaza CityBy Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, JerichoAhmad al-Ghuferi missed the bomb that obliterated his family.  

When 103 relatives were killed in a strike on their family home in Gaza City, he was stuck 50 miles (80km) away, in the occupied West Bank town of Jericho.

Ahmad had been working on a Tel Aviv construction site when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October - unable to return to his wife and three young daughters because of the war that followed, and Israel's military blockade. 

He spoke to them at the same time every day, when the phone connections allowed, and was on the phone to his wife, Shireen, as the attack happened on the evening of 8 December.

"She knew she would die," he said. "She told me to forgive her for anything bad she might ever have done to me. I told her there was no need to say that. And that was the last call between us."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68400463

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