Israeli TV broadcast three minutes and 26 seconds of a Palestinian father’s hysterical cries Friday night after three of his daughters were killed when his Gaza home was shelled by Israeli tanks.

Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish is a gynecologist at a major hospital in Tel Aviv and is well known among Israeli doctors and journalists.

Aboul Aish, who speaks Hebrew fluently and advocates for coexistence, had been giving phone interviews to the station from his Gaza home during the 22 days of Israel’s military onslaught.

He spoke about living conditions, having tanks around his house and passing through checkpoints.

Minutes before he was scheduled to give a phone interview on Israeli TV 10 on Firday, Aboul Aish called news anchor Shlomi Eldar’s cell phone, screaming in Arabic and Hebrew that his home had been hit and his daughters killed.

Eldar interrupted a co-anchor’s segment and held his phone up as Aboul Aish cried “Oh God, oh god… I want to save them but they are dead.”

A visibly shaken Eldar emotionally appealed for Israeli Defense Forces to get help to Abou Aish’s home, trying, while on the air, to determine the doctor’s location.

Aboul Aish continued to wail until Eldar removed his earpiece and walked off the set with the phone, saying he couldn’t bear to hang up on the call.

Israeli officials later permitted ambulances to transport a surviving daughter and brother of Aboul Aish across the border into Israel for treatment.

Aboul Aish insisted later that Hamas gunmen had not used the location as a firing position.

His daughters, Bisan, Mayar and Aya, were aged 20, 15 and 12, respectively.

The broadcast quickly made it onto YouTube.