The Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal will go into effect too late for Akram Abu Ahmed to see his children again.
His family's sole survivor after an Israeli airstrike, Ahmed was sleeping in the area of Gaza City in the early hours of Thursday after celebrating news of the truce when he heard a loud sound and was thrown into the air.
“Dust and screams surrounded me,” Abu Ahmed told NBC News' crew on the ground in Gaza on Thursday. His wife and three of his children were killed, including a daughter whom he said was a doctor.
“Is this what they aim for? Killing doctors?” he said. Addressing his next question to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said, “Why did you kill my daughter?”
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