Child survivor of Israeli strike that killed 10 family members heads to Italy

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month, which killed his father and nine siblings, is due to arrive in Italy's Milan on Wednesday for treatment.

Adam al-Najjar and his mother, paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar, are due to take a plane carrying Palestinians in need of medical care to Milan in northern Italy on Wednesday evening alongside his aunt and four cousins, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.

Adam had a hand amputated and suffered severe burns across his body following the strike on the family house in the city of Khan Yunis on 23 May.

His mother was at work when the bomb hit the house, killing nine of her children and injuring Adam and his father, doctor Hamdi al-Najjar, who died last week. Najjar ran to the house to find her children charred beyond recognition.

"But when I remember it's too painful, so I try to keep my mind focused entirely on Adam," she said in an interview published on Wednesday ahead of their arrival.

Asked by his mother during the interview to describe his hopes, Adam said he wanted to "live in a beautiful place" where "there are no bombs... a beautiful place [where] my arm works again and my mother is not sad," according to La Repubblica.