Holding laminated birth certificates, Abu Al Qumsan wept in anguish in the morgue where the bodies of his wife and mother-in-law, along with his son Asser and daughter Ayssel, were brought.
“My wife, two small children and my mother-in-law were killed. They said a tank shell hit the apartment they were staying in, where we had to move,” Abu Al Qumsan, 31, recalled the harrowing phone call from his neighbors.
Mohammed Abu Al Qumsan holds the birth certificates of twins who died in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, August 13. Photo: Reuters
He and others carried the dead twins into the back of the car, wrapped in white shrouds. People prayed over the bodies, while a crowd gathered to watch from the balcony of one of the overwhelmed emergency rooms at Al-Aqsa Marys Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
It is a common sight in Gaza, where Israel's air and ground campaign has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee in search of shelter.
"Today, history has recorded that the occupying army targeted newborn babies as young as four days old, twins, along with their mothers and grandmothers," said hospital doctor Khalil al Daqran.
Israel says it has made every effort to avoid civilian casualties and accuses arch-enemy Hamas of using civilians as human shields, a charge the militants deny.
Ten months after the Gaza conflict erupted, airstrikes, shelling and severe shortages of medicine, food and clean water have left one of the world's most densely populated places in dire straits.
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