Gaza Family Counts Its Dead as Israelis Flee Rocket Attacks
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On the fourth floor of the Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City, two five-year-old cousins lie side by side in beds, injured in the Israeli bombardment this week.
Kenan Hammad’s father was 35-year-old Hafez Hammad, targeted by Israel as an Islamic Jihad field commander who gave orders to launch rockets from the northern Gaza strip, where the family lives. He was killed in the attack and so were five other family members, including the boy’s mother, according to 54-year-old Amal Hammad, grandmother of one of the boys.