About two weeks ago, Howaida Khalil, an Egyptian who works as an employee at the Ain Shams Educational Administration, traveled to Gaza, in order to offer her condolences for the death of her sister Hayat’s husband.
But Howaida did not know what was written for her, as she was killed in an Israeli bombing on the Abu Al-Amrain family home in the Khan Yunis neighborhood in Gaza, one day before her scheduled return.
Israeli aircraft continue to bomb the Gaza Strip, after the Hamas movement attacked Israel in a specific operation in which 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 3,000 others were injured, according to official statistics.
Howaida and her sister Hayat were killed in the Israeli bombing, along with everyone who was in the house, who were 6 other members of the Palestinian Abu Al-Omrain family.
The day before returning
Alaa Younis Abu Al-Amrin, daughter of Hayat Khalil, said, “Her aunt Howaida was on her first visit to the Gaza Strip to see her sister and children, and she was scheduled to return to Egypt on Tuesday morning, but she died in the brutal bombing.”
She added that Israeli warplanes bombed their house without warning, resulting in the death of her mother, Hayat, her aunt, her sister, her brother, his wife, and three of her brother’s children.
She explained that “the Israeli forces bombed their house at exactly three o’clock in the morning on Monday, which led to the collapse of the house and the death of 8 members of her family, and her aunt, who came from Egypt for the first time to visit them.”
Condolences and obituaries
On Monday evening, Howaida’s family held a funeral at the Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Ain Shams neighborhood, east of Cairo, where she lived.
Hassan Waheed, the son of the sister of the two deceased Egyptian women, told Sky News Arabia that after the news of his two aunts being killed in the Israeli bombing of Khan Yunis arrived, the family decided to hold their condolences in a mosque in Ain Shams.
Wahid added that his aunt went to the Gaza Strip to perform a social duty and meet family members there, and she was supposed to return to Egypt on Tuesday, but “fate was quicker than her and she met her Lord with her Palestinian sisters, where they will be buried side by side.”
He continued: “We hope that the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in the Gaza Strip will stop, because this entire family that was killed has no fault in what is happening.”
The Syndicate of Social Workers in Gaza mourned Hayat Al-Desouki (67 years old), stressing: “She had touches within the framework of humanitarian community work, and spent her life defending the issues and rights of the Palestinian people, until the last moment of her life.”
2023-10-11 05:18:58
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