Heartbreaking story behind video of young man burned alive after Israeli strike | World News

An image of a person being burned alive among tents at a hospital in Gaza has been widely shared online.

Warning: This story contains details and images that readers may find distressing.

The video captures the moments after an Israeli strike on al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah on Monday, in which medics said three people were killed and 40 others injured.

The person involved in the flames was 19-year-old Shaban al Dalu. He was a few days shy of his 20th birthday.

In the footage, it appears to be connected to an IV line, although Sky News could not independently verify what the object shown is.

Here, Sky News looks at its history, as our analysis reveals the complex has been struck six times this year.

Shaban was taking refuge in a tent on the hospital grounds with his parents and five brothers and sisters. In a YouTube video he posted in February, speaking from a tent he had built, he said they had been moved five times.

At the time of the attack, Shaban was recovering from an injury he suffered ten days earlier.

Shaban’s 16-year-old brother Mohammed identified him in the video of the fire that followed the attack.

He told Sky News: “My dad was busy with my younger brother, so I couldn’t help but run to Shaban to try and help him. People stopped me from going near danger, saying that civil defense was on their way to end my life. the fire goes out.

“I kept saying ‘but my brother is on fire! My brother is on fire! Please let me go.’ They wouldn’t let me. My brother was burning before my eyes and I couldn’t do anything to help him. It’s an indescribable feeling.

Their mother, Alaa, was also trapped and died in hell.

Shaban, a computer engineering student, was trying to leave Gaza and had started an online fundraising page.

“I had big dreams, but the war ruined them. It took a toll on me, making me physically and mentally ill… Time seems to have stopped in Gaza, and we are stuck in a world without end .nightmare,” Shaban wrote on his GoFundMe page.

Shaban’s 14-year-old cousin Tasnim was also in the compound when the Israeli strike hit. He told Sky News: “I really don’t understand what we have done to deserve this? We are displaced families. We are moving from one place to another. This is all we can do. Qu ‘Have we done wrong?’

Satellite images taken on Saturday show dozens of tents or makeshift shelters on the ground. Many displaced Palestinians have sought shelter in hospitals since the start of the war.

The strike was criticized by the acting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Joyce Msuya, who said that “there seems to be no end to the horrors that Palestinians in Gaza are being forced to to endure.”

The Israeli military said it was a “precise strike against terrorists” operating out of a “command and control center” located in a parking lot next to the hospital.

Israel accuses Hamas of using civilian facilities like hospitals for military purposes, which Hamas denies.

International IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said a “fire broke out” in the hospital parking lot after the strike, adding that it was “most likely caused by explosions.” secondary. The incident is being investigated.”

Sky analysis of previous attacks on the compound shows that it has been hit six times since the end of March.

The first took place on March 31. The Israeli army struck a location near the main hospital building, saying it was targeting a command center used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.

As is the case today, the affected area was occupied by tents.

The head of the World Health Organization said the strike killed four people and injured 14.

The complex was hit again on July 22. The Israeli army has not made any public statement on the strike.

Video from the scene shows tents believed to have been used by journalists on fire. At the time, the Associated Press reported that one person had been killed.

On August 4, the IDF targeted another area of ​​the complex. At least five people were reportedly killed.

In comments to media, the Israeli military said the strike targeted a militant in the area.

On September 5, an Israeli strike hit an area west of the complex. Although the IDF did not confirm the precise location of the strike, it claimed that it had targeted a Hamas command center in the area.

Before Monday, the most recent strike on the hospital grounds took place on September 27, when a tent-covered area was hit.

Although the IDF has not publicly commented on the strike, components of a missile are visible in images from the scene. Markings on the debris identify it as a Hellfire missile, used by Israel and other US allies.

Speaking to Sky News, Trevor Ball, a former US Army explosive ordnance disposal technician, said the fragment came from a Hellfire missile.

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