"We were just baking bread to eat:" Palestinian boy recounts loss of entire family in Israeli airstrike

A devastating Israeli airstrike struck a family's home in north Gaza on Thursday, killing five members while they were busy baking bread together.

A boy, who survived the attack, recounted how his entire family members were killed by Israel.

"They were baking. We want to eat, we want to live, they were baking when suddenly a missile struck, decimating the house. How can this even be okay? We don't have any missiles or have any jets nor do we manufacture anything. We were just sitting minding our own business," he said while talking to local journalists after the airstrike.

When asked about his family's losses, the boy's emotions overwhelmed him. 

"I swear a lot of them, my grandfather, my grandmother, my uncle Mida. My dad's legs were amputated. Ya Allah Ya Allah," he replied with teary eyes.

According to the details, the boy's father later succumbed to his injuries.

Over 41,000 Palestinians have lost their lives, including 16,456 children and 11,000 women in Israeli military offensives in Gaza since October 7.

Almost 95,497 have been injured in Israel’s war on Gaza for eleven months.

The United Nations (UN) reported that two-thirds of buildings across the Gaza Strip have been "damaged or destroyed." Israeli attacks have also killed at least 270 aid workers.

The restrictions on food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies have exacerbated the situation in Gaza.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) directed Israel to ensure basic services and humanitarian aid delivery in the besieged enclave.

The Palestinian government's information office reported that almost 1.7 million Gazans have been displaced due to relentless air and artillery strikes by the Israeli military.

Thousands of children in Gaza have been diagnosed with malnutrition, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Earlier, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) head Cindy McCain said people in Gaza are starving to death.

The WFP estimated that around 1.1 million people are "struggling with catastrophic hunger and starvation" due to Israel's severe restrictions on food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies to the besieged enclave.