Palestinian journalist breaks down while reporting the deaths of his children.

Mohammad Al-Aloul, a photographer for Turkey's Anadolu Agency, was met with an unimaginable tragedy while reporting elsewhere. An Israeli strike on his hometown, the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, had killed four of his five children, as well as four of his brothers and their children.

The heart-wrenching moment was captured on camera when Mohammad broke down after discovering the news.

"I was working when I heard that an Israeli airstrike had targeted a residential district in Al-Maghazi and that there were martyrs and injured," he said, tears streaming down his face. "The news began to trickle slowly, telling me your daughter is wounded, your son is wounded. I got in touch with colleagues at the Al-Aqsa hospital and in the end I found out that my four children were killed."

The attack had killed at least 38 Palestinians and wounded 100, according to Salama Marouf, head of the Hamas government media office. An unknown number of people were still missing. Videos taken at Al-Aqsa showed multiple bodies laid out under white tarpaulins.

At the hospital entrance, family and friends of Mohammad gathered to console him, still wearing his blue helmet and flak jacket. He was later seen carrying the remains of one of his children wrapped in a white sheet.

Saeed al-Nejma, who was asleep with his family when the blast hit his neighbourhood in Al-Maghazi, spoke of the horror he experienced. "All night I and the other men were trying to pick the dead from the rubble. We got children, dismembered, torn-apart flesh," he said.

The tragedy of Mohammad and his family is just one of many in the wake of the Israeli strike on the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. The heartbreaking stories of loss and grief are a stark reminder of the human cost of war.

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