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Illustrative scene: A Palestinian medic carries the body of a child, killed in an explosion in a public playground on the beachfront of Shati refugee camp, in the morgue of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza (AFP, File). Published by Maan News

Mohammad Saleh Abu Haddaf. Published by IMEMC News
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian child from the Gaza Strip died on Wednesday after succumbing to wounds he sustained during the Israeli offensive on Gaza in 2014, when he was just one years old.

Medical sources in Gaza told Ma’an that four-year-old Muhammad Saleh Haddaf was severely injured and left bed ridden after an Israeli airstrike hit his home on August 8, 2014, killing four of his family members and injuring several others.

Haddaf passed away on Wednesday morning. He was from the al-Qarrara town in the Khan Younis district of the southern Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, some 2,147 Palestinians were killed during the 51-day Israeli offensive on Gaza in 2014, including 72 who later succumbed to their wounds.

UN records state that somewhere between 72 to 84 percent of Palestinians that were killed were civilians, hundreds of them children.
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by IMEMC News

Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child died, on Wednesday morning, from serious wounds he suffered when the soldiers bombarded his family’s home, during the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza, killing three family members.

The sources stated that the child, identified as Mohammad Saleh Abu Haddaf, 4, remained in a critical condition until his death.

He was injured, on August 8th, 2014, when Israeli army drones fired missiles at his family’s home, and several other homes in al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The missile which struck Haddaf’s family home killed three family members and wounded at least six others, including the child, medical sources said.

The slain family members have been identified as:

1. Mahmoud Khaled Abu Haddaf, 15, Khan Younis.
2. Suleiman Samir Abu Haddaf, 21, Khan Younis.
3. Mahmoud Mohamad Abu Haddaf, 9, Khan Younis.