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.
The day before she was killed, the twins’ mother had sent a voice message to the US charity HEAL Palestine to thank them for supporting her during her pregnancy in which she struggled to access food and maternity care.
“There needs to be an immediate ceasefire to stop the daily killing of innocent women and children in Gaza,” said Steve Sosebee, the founder of HEAL Palestine, following the killing of Jumana Arafa and her family.
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Saher Alghorra / ZUMA Press Wire)
Excerpt from “What will stop the genocide in Gaza?” by Maureen Clare Murphy. Read the full article at https://electronicintifada.net/…/what-will-stop…
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