A Palestinian mother burned to death, and her young daughter was pulled alive from the flames when an Israeli airstrike set their Gaza City home on fire, an attack that one of the largest Muslim civil rights groups in the United States has urged Congress to condemn.
The woman was identified by a medical source at al-Shifa Hospital as Reem Asaad Awad, 33. Footage filmed after the strike, which showed the girl on a bed surrounded by fire as her mother burned nearby and then being carried to safety, circulated widely online on Wednesday and prompted the appeal to American lawmakers.
