By NewBorn Twins Killed In Gaza Strike While Father Registered Birth
The father of the newborn twins, Abu al-Qumsan Mohammed had just collected the birth certificates of his barely 3-day-old twins when he heard the news a few miles away from his home that his Gaza apartment had been bombed, killing the babies and their mother.
A picture of a disturbed, sad Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan, weeping and falling as he still holds the birth certificates of his babies, has been widely circulated across social media, becoming the latest emblem of the devastating toll of the war in Palestine.
“I was in the hospital at the time when the house was targeted,” he says, tears streaming down his face.
“There was a call after the birth certificates were printed.
“The caller asked, ‘Are you okay and where are you?’ I told them I was at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and I was told that my house had been bombed.”
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan had left his wife, the infants, and his mother-in-law in the fifth-floor flat they shared, in the central Gaza Strip, which has been continously bombed by the Israeli forces.
“I was informed that they are in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and I told them I am at the entrance to the hospital,” he says.
“I went inside the hospital with the birth certificates in my hands… and they told me they are in the morgue.”
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