In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Tuesday, newborn twins Ayssel and Asser Abu al-Qumsan were killed along with their mother, Jumana Arafa, a doctor, and their grandmother, Reem al-Batrawi.
At the time that their apartment building was hit, the twins’ now anguished father, Muhammad Abu al-Qusman, was out to collect the birth certificates for the babies, who were born a few days earlier.
“My wife is gone, my two babies and my mother-in-law. I was told it’s a tank shell on the apartment they were in, in a house we were displaced to,” he told media.
The young father carried the birth certificates to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where his twins, wife and mother-in-law lay dead in the morgue. ….more