Gaza War Impact: 5 Family Members of US Resident Killed, 5 Injured in Bombing

Fatal victims included three young children and two adults; Minnesota-based US citizen laments expansive media coverage of Israeli loss over Palestinian tragedies.

• Five members of a Gazan family, who are relatives of Jehad Adwan, a US resident based in Minnesota, were killed in a bomb attack during the Israel-Hamas war. The victims included Adwan's wife's nephews aged 6, 7, and 18, her sister-in-law aged 42, and cousin aged 40.
• Apart from the fatality, an additional five relatives from Adwan's extended family were also injured in the bombing. All the victims lived in a multigenerational home in Khan Younis, a southern city and decades-old refugee camp in Gaza.
• Adwan, a nursing professor at Minnesota State University, conspicuously notes down each injured or killed member of his extended family on a scrap of paper, updating it based on news reports, social media posts, and conversations with surviving relatives in Gaza.
• Adwan criticizes the media coverage of the war, stating that Palestinians are not humanized as much as Israelis. He expresses his dissatisfaction with how the Israeli side is extensively covered, with their experiences, names, and hobbies detailed, while Palestinian casualties are often reduced to mere numbers.
• The impact of the war has been profound, especially for families like Adwan's. Abumousa, Adwan's wife, had plans to visit her parents in Gaza so they could meet her nearly 2-year-old son, but everything has changed now due to the tragic loss.

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