I lost 5 of my family in Gaza bombing

AGONY OF TAKEAWAY OWNER WHOSE MUM IS AMONG THOSE WHO DIED 

- CHRIS SLATER

CLUTCHING a picture of his mother, Dalloul al-Neder can't fight back the tears. The 31-year-old is a broken man.

Sitting in a shared bedroom at his south Manchester flat, he sobs as he reveals the extent of his unthinkable loss. Five members of his family are dead following bombing in Gaza last weekend.

The Burnage takeaway owner tells the M.E.N. his mum, brother, pregnant sister-in-law and two nieces have been killed amid the Israel-Gaza conflict. Dalloul, who runs the Royal Grill House on Kingsway, now faces a desperate wait for news about his injured wife and six-month-old daughter.

He was working at his fast-food shop when he received a text from his brother-in-law. In that moment, his life as he knew it was 'destroyed! Dalloul was told the family's three-story home in the northern city of Jabalia had been hit and that one of his nieces had died.

"I was expecting it to be more than one person," Dalloul says.

"I was chasing him up and asking, 'Please be honest... be honest with me, how many people?? Then he said my brother had been critically injured. I found out about half an hour later the full number."