Dr Mahmoud has already lost six family members in the war in Gaza and said his baby niece, who survived an air strike is being breast fed by her aunt who gave birth to a baby of her own around the same time as she was born.

Dr Mahmoud Abumarzouq woke to the news on Tuesday of the massacre

The surgeon at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan, Co. Meath says his family, especially the children, are constantly asking for reassurance to their safety.

Dr Mahmoud Abumarzouq lost his 29-year-old brother Ahmed Abumarzouq last Friday, when an Israeli bomb hit the refugee camp in Rafah, where he was staying