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Shaban al-Dalu, a 19-year-old university student, seen in this undated image, was among five people killed in an Israeli strike that hit a tent camp for displaced people in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah on Monday, Oct. 13, 2024. (Al-Dalu family photo via AP)

A Palestinian student was asleep in his tent at a hospital when an Israeli strike brought an inferno

Shaban al-Dalu, a 19-year-old Palestinian university student, had survived an Israeli strike on a mosque when, only a week later, he was killed in a new strike on the courtyard of the central Gaza hospital where his family was sheltering

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Published - Oct 16, 2024, 02:45 PM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:17 PM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Shaban al-Dalu was sleeping in his tent in a central Gaza hospital's courtyard, still recuperating from wounds from an Israeli strike on a mosque a week earlier, when a new strike hit, setting off an inferno.

The 19-year-old university student and his 38-year-old mother, Alaa al-Dalu, were among five people killed as the blaze ripped through a tent camp sheltering hundreds of Palestinian families in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah. Dozens of others, including children, were severely burned.

Al-Dalu and his mother were sleeping in the tent along with his father and three siblings when the strike hit at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday. Mohammed al-Dalu, his fifth sibling, was sleeping nearby at his vendor's table when the explosion jolted him awake. He found his father and uncle, who lived in a neighboring tent, struggling to pull their families out of the fire

The father, Ahmed al-Dalu, said he managed to rescue two of his sons and his daughter, but not his wife or eldest child, Shaban. “My son was being burned in front of me,” he said, speaking at the hospital with burns on his face. “I accepted the will of God in every sense of the word.”

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