DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza: Mohammed Abu Al Qumsan had just picked up birth certificates for his newly-born twins when he found out they had been killed, along with his wife and her mother, by an Israeli strike on the Gaza apartment where they were sheltering.
Mohammed Abu Al Qumsan, whose wife and newborn twins were killed in an Israel i strike, reacts as he holds the twins' birth certificates in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Aug 13, 2024.
"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," said Abu Al Qumsan, 31, recalling the devastating phone call from people in the neighbourhood. Mohammed Abu Al Qumsan, whose wife and newborn twins were killed in an Israeli strike while he was bringing the twins' birth certificates, reacts at a hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Aug 13, 2024.
Israel says it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties and accuses arch-foe Hamas of using human shields, charges the militants deny.
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