Israeli Attack Kills Twin Babies In Gaza When His Father Takes Birth Certificate

JAKARTA - Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan has just taken birth certificates for his newborn twins when he learned that his son had been killed, along with his wife and mother, by Israeli soldiers who attacked buildings in Gaza where they took refuge.

He waved a birth certificate that should indicate rare joy in the trapped Palestinian territories.

"My wife is missing, my two babies, and my mother-in-law. I was told that it was a tank bomb in the apartment where they were, at the house where we were displaced," Abu Al-Qumsan said, 31, recalling the incident.

He carried his son and daughter, Asser and Ayssel, wrapped in white cloth.

A man prayed as the bodies were placed on the back of the car and crowds gathered and people looked from the balcony of one of Gaza's emergency rooms, at Al-Aqsa Maryrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the middle of the hospital. coastal lane.

Ten months after the Gaza war erupted, airstrikes, artillery shells, and a shortage of medicine, food, and clean water had brought one of the most populous places in the world to its knees.

Today, it is historically recorded that occupational soldiers target newborns who are only four days old, twins and their mothers and grandmothers, "said hospital doctor Khalil al-Daqran.

Israel says it is working hard to avoid civilian casualties and accuses its arch-enemy, Hamas, of using human shields, a charge the militant group denies.

Iran-backed Palestinian militant groups started the conflict in a cross-border attack on Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and holding more than 250 people hostage, according to Israeli tallies.