Palestinian cameraman Mohammed Alaloul holds the wrapped body of one of his children who was killed in an Israeli attack on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp (Photo: AFP)

This is the heartbreaking moment a journalist broke down when he heard his children had been killed in a bombing in Gaza.

Elsewhere, Mohammad Al-Aloul, a photographer with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, reported on the attack by Israeli forces on his neighborhood in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.

Four of his five children were among the lifeless bodies dug from the smoking piles where their home once stood.

Four of Mohammed’s brothers and their children were among the dozens of victims.

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He broke down as he recalled on camera the moment he learned of her death.

“I was at work when I heard that an Israeli airstrike had hit a residential area in Al-Maghazi, killing and injuring people,” he said.

“Slowly the news started coming in telling me your daughter is hurt, your son is hurt.

“I contacted colleagues at Al-Aqsa Hospital and eventually discovered that my four children had been murdered.”

Mohammad says his final goodbyes to his family members (Photo: Shutterstock)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Graphic content / Family and friends of Palestinian cameraman Mohammed Alaloul try to comfort him after two of his children and his brother were killed in an Israeli attack on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip, opposite al -Quds hospital in the same city on November 5, 2023. Alaloul, who works for Turkey's Anadolu Agency, told AFP that his 13-year-old son Ahmed and four-year-old son Qais were killed in the bombing, along with his brother. The Hamas-led Health Ministry said 45 people were killed in the Israeli bombing of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. An eyewitness reported that children were killed and houses were destroyed. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Family and friends of the Palestinian cameraman try to comfort him (Photo: AFP)

Tears streamed down Mohammed’s cheeks as he listed the names of his sons, his only daughter and his nephews who died in the attack.

People gathered at the hospital entrance hugged the journalist, still wearing his blue helmet and bulletproof vest, as he cried in their arms.

He was later seen with the remains of one of his children wrapped in a white sheet.

Salama Marouf, head of the Hamas government’s media office, said at least 38 Palestinians were killed and 100 injured in the attack on the refugee camp, adding that an unknown number of people were missing.

The Bureij refugee camp in Deir Al-Balah governorate is being treated at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza. Attacks on busy residential areas in Gaza refugee camps have increased in recent days, targeting Jabalia (in the north of the Gaza Strip), Al-Shati, Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi (in the central part of the Gaza Strip) affected. Target of the ongoing Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. November 5, 2023 In the photo: Bureij refugee camp in the Deir Al-Balah governorate in central Gaza. Attacks on busy residential areas in Gaza refugee camps have increased in recent days, targeting Jabalia (in the north of the Gaza Strip), Al-Shati, Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi (in the central part of the Gaza Strip) affected. Target of the ongoing Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo credit: ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342

Bureij refugee camp in Deir Al-Balah governorate (Photo: MEGA)

A Palestinian news agency had earlier reported 51 deaths.

Videos taken in Al-Aqsa showed several bodies lying under white tarpaulins.

Saeed al-Nejma was sleeping with his family when the explosion rocked his neighborhood in Al-Maghazi.

‘All night I and the other men tried to get the dead out of the rubble. “We have children, cut up and torn flesh,” he said.

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