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GAZA - Tishreen Yaghi searches among the rubble of several destroyed homes for the body of his journalist son, Mohammed, two days after a violent Israeli raid that killed dozens of his relatives. All the father was able to find was the body of Mohammed's wife, Dania, and his granddaughter, Ayloul, in addition to Mohammed's shirt and his camera, which he always documented events with, but he has not found his body yet. The raid carried out by an Israeli warplane, on Thursday evening, on the Yaghi family home in the town of Al-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip, completely destroyed it and neighboring homes, resulting in the martyrdom of about 36 people, many of whom are still under the rubble. Journalist Yaghi (30 years old) worked as a professional photographer with several international media outlets, including Al Jazeera Net, and was known for his high skills in editing and filming documentaries. Yaghi was known for being a professional journalist and possessing high skills in editing (Al Jazeera) Journalism's dream. On the ruins of the house, the grieving father says that his son loved journalism since he was young, and that is why he decided to study it, and obtained a certificate He graduated from the University of Media and was able to achieve his dream, working as a professional photographer with several international media outlets. He told Al Jazeera Net, "Thank God, his fate today is that he is a martyr, along with his wife and daughter, his aunts and cousins, and 36 other family members. Thank God." The father, who lives in Rafah in the far south of the Gaza Strip, heard about the bombing of his house through the media. "The incident happened around 8:00 PM. I heard that there was an attack on Yaghi's house in Al-Zawaida while I was in Rafah. There were about 40 people in the house. 36 were martyred, and five survived, including three children, an elderly man, and a young man." “May God give us patience to bear their loss. We can only say, ‘God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.’ These are Israel’s goals.” The father describes his journalist son as someone who loves his work and has high skills in video editing. He points out that Mohammed was working on producing a documentary about the work of civil defense personnel during the war, expressing his hope that he would have completed it and finished filming it. Journalist Yaghi with his daughter, Ayloul, who was martyred with him (Al Jazeera). A shirt and camera. While he was carrying a shirt and a camera, Abdullah Al-Athamneh, the brother of Yaghi’s wife and a friend of his, says, “This is all that remains of Mohammed.” He adds to Al Jazeera Net, “We searched under the rubble for Mohammed, and we only found this shirt and this camera. We haven’t found his body yet. Maybe he is among the remains, we don’t know.” Al-Athamneh points to Yaghi’s camera and says, “With this, he documented all the events of the war and everything he did in his life. He worked hard filming and editing about the war.” Regarding his sister, Dania, who was martyred with Her husband, Mohammed, said, "They were the closest thing to me. They were my heart and my life. Hamada (Mohammed) was not just my sister's husband, but my brother. We always went out together, filmed together, and I helped him. His whole life was with me." Tishreen Yaghi carries the body of his two-year-old granddaughter, Ayloul, daughter of journalist Mohammed, before her burial (Al Jazeera). The annihilation of an entire family. As he looked at the widespread destruction caused by the Israeli raid, Dr. Ayman Yaghi, the uncle of the martyr Mohammed, expressed his great shock at the targeting of the family home. He told Al Jazeera Net, "We were in Rafah when we heard the news of the targeting of Yaghi's house here (in the central Gaza Strip). We were surprised, as we are civilians, and we have no connection to any political organization. When we came here and saw this massive destruction, we found something unbelievable. They dropped a barrel of explosives that turned a three-story house into biscuits." Yaghi said that they had extracted 18 complete bodies from under the rubble, which they were able to identify, and then they began to pull out limbs, "hands and legs." And piles of meat, we don't know who owns it? “There are 12 martyrs under the rubble, including the journalist Mohammed, my nephew Tishreen. We don’t know how to get her out. Only five people survived,” Yaghi said. Yaghi said that among the survivors was a 7-year-old girl named Rahaf, who spent a whole night under the rubble. After she was pulled out, she told them that she was unable to open her eyes because of the dust, sand, and sulfur, as she was eating and drinking sand. He said that this girl lost her entire family: her father, mother, and all her siblings. He quoted her as saying to him in the hospital, “Uncle, I slept in the cold all night.” He added, “This girl will live in shock for the rest of her life.” He concluded by saying, “An entire family was wiped out. They killed 36 people. All my cousins were martyred. We envied ourselves for how many we were, and in a moment, all of these people were wiped out.” Extensive destruction caused by the Israeli raid on the Yaghi family home in the central Gaza Strip (Al Jazeera) Remains of a child Shaza Yaghi recounts her testimony of the crime of the occupation’s bombing of the family home, saying that she was She was fasting on Thursday with a number of people present, and she added to Al Jazeera Net, “After we broke our fast, and everyone took their place to prepare for sleep, we found ourselves flying, then under the rubble. We did not hear a sound, we were just flying in complete darkness, we could not see anything.” She continued, “I found myself in a hole with the closet above me, with a baby with me, and under the rubble were all my brothers’ wives.” Shaza Yaghi came on Saturday morning with the aim of collecting some belongings she might find among the rubble, but she was surprised to find the remains of a child of her relatives. She said, “I came to collect things, and I found the remains and bones of a small child. I do not know whose it belongs to, maybe the son of Mashaal or Muhammad, I do not know. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.” The Director General of the Government Media Office, Ismail Al-Thawabtah, condemned the killing of journalist Yaghi at the hands of the occupation army, and told Al Jazeera Net, “The occupation army committed a new crime by killing journalist Muhammad Tishreen Yaghi, his young daughter, his wife, and a large number of their family, as the occupation bombed their home with warplanes and fighter jets, eliminating the family.” "The Israeli occupation army does not hesitate, even for a moment, to target Palestinian journalists and media professionals whenever the opportunity presents itself, because Palestinian journalists have succeeded with great skill in exporting the Palestinian narrative and exposing the ongoing crimes of the occupation," he added.