Baby pulled from rubble only survivor of Israeli air strike that killed 10 of his family – World News

Medics tend a bloodied baby miraculously pulled from the rubble after an Israeli air strike that killed ten members of his family in Gaza City.

The five-month-old boy, reportedly found next to his mother’s body, was the only survivor of the raid.

It was the deadliest strike since Israel’s battle with Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers erupted on Monday.

Two women and eight children in the extended family died as a three-storey house in the city’s Shati refugee camp was hit early ron Saturday.

Grief-stricken Mohammed Hadidi said his wife and five children had gone to celebrate the Eid religious holiday with relatives.

The mother and three youngsters, six to 14, were killed. Another child aged 11 is missing.

Only the couple’s baby son Omar is known to have survived.

The bombardment came as crowds of protesters marched on the Israeli embassy in London for a pro-Palestinian rally.

Organisers said 150,000 attended the demo, which called for “immediate action” by the UK Government to help end the “brutal” violence against the Palestinian people.

Red, green and black smoke filled the air as many protesters clambered on to lamp posts, bus stops and balconies in Kensington High Street.

Some tried to scale scaffolding as the buzzing of helicopters competed with chants of “Free, free Palestine”.

London doctor Ghaida Ramadan, 26, said: “I have family in Gaza. Being here we feel completely helpless. This is one way we can show our support.”

Dr Ramadan said that in a phone call with her extended family “you could hear them screaming and bombs in the background”.

Organisers set up a stage where speakers, including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, addressed crowds while dozens of police ­officers lined nearby streets.

Protesters burned Israeli flags, including one in front of a police line guarding a road near the embassy.

Another demo is planned for next weekend, with organisers hoping 500,000 people will attend.

The overall death toll in Gaza this week now tops 130, including 39 children and 22 women, with nine fatalities on Israel’s side.

Israeli air strikes also destroyed a Gaza Strip high-rise building that housed foreign media, including Associated Press and Al-Jazeera, as well as offices and flats.

The raid came an hour after Israel’s army ordered an evacuation, saying the building contained “Hamas military intelligence”.

Mum-of-three Rana Abdallah, 38, who works for a Christian Aid partner group, told last night of her family’s terror at being under siege.

“This is the fourth offensive for me since I came to live in Gaza in 2000 and it is the worst by far,” she said.

“Nowhere and no one is safe. We’ve not left home since Monday. Our food will probably last only another four or five days and then we’ll have to risk going out.

“We have felt huge explosions that shook the house and we are all terrified.

“A friend said she sleeps with her four children in one room so if they’re hit they will all die together. Maybe it would be best to do the same.”

But north of Gaza in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, an extraordinary gesture by two women showed there is hope for Arabs and Israelis to live in harmony.

In a “hug of peace”, Jewish mother Miriam Peretz – who lost two of her six sons while they served in Israel’s army during conflicts with its Arab neighbours – wrapped her arms around Arab-Israeli nurse Lena Ahmad.

Lena is based at Sheba Medical Centre, the country’s largest hospital, where Israelis and Palestinians work together to treat patients from both sides of the conflict.

Miriam, 67, whose late husband died of an illness she believes was brought on by a broken heart, is standing as a moderate in next month’s presidential elections.

She said: “The work that goes on in this hospital to treat Jews and Arabs shows that we can live together in peace.”

Diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire have yet to show any signs of halting hostilities.

The UN Security Council was set to hold a meeting about the crisis on Sunday.