The Israeli air strike hit Mohammed Hamdan’s Gaza home soon after the evening prayer on Tuesday, he said, killing 35 members of his extended family across three generations from Kamal, aged 70, to Rasmi, aged seven.

Hamdan, 50, was buried by his collapsing house and it took an hour and a half to pull him out, he said. He emerged to discover he had lost his daughter Malak, brother Ahmed, his nephew, nieces and many cousins, Reuters reports.

“My brother, my nephew and I were sitting down along with another brother just after the prayer. We found ourselves under the rubble,” he said, recounting the moment of the strike.

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