When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military's warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place.They figured they would wait out the airstrikes in the southern town of Khan...
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — When Omar Khodari and his family heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week advising them to head from the northern Gaza Strip to the south, they thought they were fleeing to a safer place.
On Wednesday, Khodari, his wife, four teenage daughters and two sons decided they'd had enough. Khodari, a 47-year-old civil engineer who spent the last 15 years in Dubai, couldn't stand that he was suffering under bombardment at his friend’s crowded Khan Younis apartment when he could be in his own home — an airy country villa that he spent the past months designing and decorating.
Khodari's stucco villa, in the well-off Rimal neighborhood, was reduced to ruins. The neighbors pried his wife and other children from the rubble. The explosion had flung them through the window, neighbors said. They remain in intensive care. The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Over the course of the Israeli bombardment, following an unprecedented Hamas attack that killed 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, the military has said its airstrikes are aimed at Hamas militants or infrastructure and do not target civilians.
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