Newborn twins killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza
As Mohamed Abu Al-Qomasan waited to collect the birth certificates of his days-old twins, he learned the newborns and his wife had been killed.
It was supposed to be a joyful affirmation of new life in Gaza’s ruins.
Instead, as Mohamed Abu Al-Qomasan waited to collect the birth certificates of his days-old twins, he learned the newborns and his wife had been killed in what local officials and witnesses said was an Israeli strike.
“The pain inside me is too big for me to express,” he told NBC News' crew on the ground in Gaza in an interview Wednesday. “I still feel like I am in a nightmare.”
Holding up the birth certificates of Ayssel and Asser with tears in his eyes, he said how he had been racing to retrieve the precious documents Tuesday when he received the gut-wrenching call.
"Someone told me, 'the apartment you were living in was shelled,'" said Abu Al-Qomasan, speaking from Deir al-Balah, the city in central Gaza where he and his family had sought shelter in an apartment building during Israel’s monthslong military offensive in the enclave.
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