Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian's family. Then they tortured him

On 21 December, Mohammed al-Kilani was inside his apartment in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City, performing dawn prayers with his father and brother. 

The three men had barely begun when the relative quiet of the early morning was shattered by the sound of heavy weaponry targeting the building. 

“The walls started collapsing on us,” Kilani, 45, told Middle East Eye. “We did not know what to do. We all hid in one room.”

Israeli forces then stormed the apartment, executing Kilani's father, wife and 12-year-old son.

"My wife was holding the Quran as they led us out of the room. A soldier told her to throw it away. She refused. He shot her in the back and the bullet came through her abdomen."

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