ABC | Riley Stuart & Orly Halpern | 19 January 2025
Just shows how evil Netanyahu is – kill as many innocents as possible until forced to behave like a human – Mark
Amer al-Sultan is showing off images of his smiling relatives on his phone.
Sitting on a bench in Deir Al-Balah, in Gaza’s south, he explains who they are and where they fit on his family tree.
He stops swiping when a montage of multiple faces fills the screen.
“That’s a picture of all the ones who have died,” Mr Al-Sultan says. “My mother, my sister, my brother, his children and the children of my sister.”
“That one is two years old,” he says, pointing to his nephew, Ahmed.
On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal that many hope will bring to an end the 15-month war in Gaza.
It doesn’t come into effect until 8:30am local time on Sunday (5:30pm AEDT), and the days leading up to it have been deadly for Palestinians.
Mr Al-Sultan says nine of his relatives were killed in an air-strike on the family’s home in Jabalia, in Gaza’s north, on Friday.
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