In the midst of Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza, a tragic report emerged on 312 day of genocide: four-day-old twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Deir Al-Balah while their father was away registering their birth, underscoring Israel’s sadistic policies of genocide against Gaza People.
Mohamed Abuel-Qomasan said his wife, Joumana Arafa, a pharmacist, had given birth by caesarean section four days earlier and announced the twins’ arrival on Facebook.
On Tuesday, he had gone to register the births at a local government office. While he was there, neighbours called him to say the home where he was sheltering, near the central city of Deir al-Balah, had been bombed.
“I don’t know what happened,” he told the AP while sitting at the hospital where their bodies were taken, holding the twins’ birth certificates. “I am told it was a shell that hit the house.”
The strike that killed the newborns – a boy, Asser, and a girl, Ayssel – also killed their mother, Arafa, as well as her mother, the twins’ grandmother.
Abuel-Qomasan and his wife had heeded orders to evacuate Gaza City in the opening weeks of the war. They sought shelter in central Gaza, as the army had instructed.
Elsewhere, a three-month-old baby was the only member of her immediate family to survive an Israeli airstrike near the southern city of Khan Younis in which 10 people were killed including her five siblings, aged five to 12.
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