When an Israeli airstrike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah sparked a fire that swept through a cluster of tents Monday night, 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalu was sleeping near his mother, Alaa, 38.

In a video that circulated widely on social media, Shaban’s arms could be seen reaching from the enveloping flames, horrifying a world that watched him being burned alive.

In an interview with NBC News a day after the strike, Shaban’s 17-year-old brother, Mohammed al-Dalu, described the…