Shaban al-Dalou, the Palestinian young man burnt alive by an Israeli air strike on tents in Gaza

Shaban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old Palestinian, was burnt alive after an Israeli air strike engulfed tents for the displaced at the Al Aqsa Hospital in flames.

Shaban was killed alongside his mother in the tent he had built for his family, after they were forcibly displaced from Gaza City last year.

His brother said Shaban had survived an earlier Israeli strike on October 6, which had targeted the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Mosque, where he had been sleeping.

"They came out as charred skeletons," Maha al-Sarsak, a displaced Palestinian sheltering at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza, told MEE.

"I saw death with my own eyes. It was terrifying," she said tearfully.

Maha said her mother had heard a drone in the sky at 1 a.m. "As soon as we laid down, the strike hit the hospital's courtyard," she told MEE. "About seven minutes later, there was a fire."