A Palestinian teenager Dima Allamdani and her family fled the relentless Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and took refuge in the southern Gaza Strip.

However, the shelter she and her brother Hamza sought refuge in was bombed by Israeli jets, killing 13 of their relatives including their parents, seven siblings, and four members of their uncle’s family.

Pictures taken by Reuters photographers showed the siblings’ grief.

Dima Allamdani reacts at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Dima Allamdani reacts at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Dima Allamdani reacts at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Dima Allamdani reacts at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Dima Alladmdani’s brother Hamza, who also escaped to avoid the constant onslaught of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and settled in a shelter that was later hit by Israeli jets which killed 13 of his relatives. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Dima Alladmdani’s brother Hamza, who also escaped to avoid the constant onslaught of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and settled in a shelter that was later hit by Israeli jets which killed 13 of his relatives. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Dima Alladmdani’s brother Hamza looks on, in Khan Younis in in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Dima Alladmdani’s brother Hamza looks on, in Khan Younis in in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Dima Allamdani and her brother Hamza sit among others, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Dima Allamdani and her brother Hamza sit among others, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

A general view shows the house where Palestinian teenager Dima Allamdani, was sheltering in, which was hit by Israeli jets in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
A general view shows the house where Palestinian teenager Dima Allamdani, was sheltering in, which was hit by Israeli jets in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

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