Newborn Gaza twins killed in Israeli offensive while father registered birth
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan had left his wife, the infants and his mother-in-law in the flat they shared in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan had just collected the birth certificates of his three-day-old twins when he received the news: his Gaza apartment had been bombed, killing the babies and their mother. Abu al-Qumsan had left his wife, the infants and his mother-in-law in the fifth-floor flat they shared in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly bombed by Israeli forces.
He never got the chance to show his wife that their babies had been legally named: Aser, the boy, and Aysal, the girl. "These nappies, we had a hard time finding them. For three months, we have been trying to buy some" in the Gaza Strip, where there has been a dire shortage of basic supplies since the start of the war.The Gaza war began with Hamas' 7 October attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1 198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Abu al-Qumsan married his wife Jumana, a pharmacist, in July last year, before the war plunged their lives into chaos.He said:
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