Palestinian dies of injuries after Israeli airstrikes

A Palestinian man attained martyrdom more than a week after eight members of his family lost their lives in a string of airstrikes carried out by Israeli regime warplanes on the besieged Gaza Strip.

The spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a statement that 40-year-old Mohammad Salem Sawarka succumbed on Friday afternoon to the wounds he had sustained in the Israeli bombing of his home in the central town of Deir al-Balah.

In the early hours of November 14, four Israeli air raids targeted the home of Rasmi Abu Malhous, also known as Rasmi al-Sawarka, and his brother, Mohammad.

The strikes martyred Rasmi, his wife Maryam, 45, and three of his 11 children, Salim, 3, Mohannad, 12, and three-month-old Firas. The bombing also martyred Mohamed's wife Yousra, 39, and two of their sons, Moaaz, 7, and Waseem, 13.

The deadly attack left Mohamed and 11 other members of the Abu Malhous family, mostly children, in critical condition at Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital.

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