A 10-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month that killed his father and nine siblings was due to arrive in Italy Wednesday for treatment.

Adam al-Najjar and his mother, Alaa al-Najjar, were due to fly to Milan in northern Italy on Wednesday evening alongside his aunt and four cousins, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.

“Adam will arrive in Milan and will be admitted to the Niguarda (hospital), because he has multiple fractures and he will be treated there,” Tajani told Rtl radio.

A plane carrying Palestinians in need of medical care is scheduled to land at 7:30 p.m. (1730 GMT) at Milan’s Linate airport, according to Italy’s Foreign Ministry.

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

His mother, a, pediatrician, was at work when the bomb hit the house, killing nine of her children and injuring Adam and his father, Dr. Hamdi al-Najjar, who died last week.

The IDF said it has been investigating the incident in which the nine children were killed.

According to a preliminary probe, soldiers spotted several suspected terror operatives at a building several hundred meters from where ground troops were operating and called in an airstrike.

The IDF had ordered the area, in southern Khan Younis, be evacuated on March 31. The military said it did not expect any civilians in the area when the incident took place in late May.

Al-Najjar, who ran to the house to find her children charred beyond recognition, told Italy’s Repubblica daily: “I remember everything. Every detail, every minute, every scream.”

“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 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.”

“A beautiful place is a place where there are no bombs. In a beautiful place, the houses are not broken and I go to school,” he said, according to La Repubblica.

“Schools have desks, the kids study their lessons, but then they go play in the courtyard, and nobody dies. A beautiful place is where they operate on my arm, and my arm works again. In a beautiful place, my mother is not sad. They told me that Italy is a beautiful place.”

Al-Najjar said she had packed the Quran, their documents, and Adam’s clothes.

“I am heartbroken. I am leaving behind everything that was important to me. My husband, my children, the hospital where I worked, my job, my patients,” she said.

“People are dying of hunger. If not of hunger, of bombs. We would just like to live in peace,” she told the daily.

Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began with the terror group’s assault on southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people and saw another 251 taken hostage. Terror groups in Gaza continue to hold 55 hostages, including the bodies of at least 33 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 who are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry says more than 54,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.