When Muhammad Abu Al-Qumsan went out to collect the birth certificate for his twins Asher and Aisel, who were born four days earlier, he did not know that he would return to find them dead next to their mother.
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While he was away, his neighbours called to tell him that his house in the town of Deir Al-Balah had been bombed and his young family had been killed.
The attack also He killed his wife Jumann and the twins’ grandmother.
“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “They told me the house was bombed.”
“I didn’t even have time to celebrate his birth,” he added.
Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says 115 babies have been born and then died during the war.
According to the AP news agency, The family had followed an order to evacuate Gaza City. in the first weeks of the war and had sought refuge in a central part of the strip, as ordered by the Israeli army.
The BBC has asked the Israeli military for comment on the attack and is awaiting a response.
Israel says it tries to avoid harm to civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas, which operates in dense residential areaseven using civilian buildings as shelter.
But authorities rarely comment on individual attacks.
Several such shelters in Gaza have been attacked in recent weeks.
On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a school building housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City killed more than 70 people, a hospital director told the BBC.
An Israeli military spokesman said the school “served as an active military facility for Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” which Hamas denied.
Israel disputed the death toll and the BBC was unable to independently verify figures from either side.
A war against children
Hamas-led gunmen killed around 1,200 people in an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, taking another 251 back to Gaza as hostages.
That attack triggered a massive Israeli military offensive in Gaza and the current war.
More than 39,790 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli campaign, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The United Nations said in a report published last March that “the number of children killed in Gaza in four months exceeds the number recorded during four years of wars around the world.
In publishing the report, the Commissioner General of the UNRWA described the war in Gaza as “a war against children, their childhood and their future,” and renewed its repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire on humanitarian grounds.
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