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Newborn twins killed in Gaza strike while father registered birth

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Palestinians mourn family members killed in Israeli bombardment, at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 14, 2024. [AFP]

Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan had just collected the birth certificates of his three-day-old twins when he received the news: his Gaza apartment had been bombed, killing the babies and their mother.

Footage of a distraught Abu al-Qumsan, weeping and falling as he still holds the birth certificates, has been widely circulated on social media, becoming the latest emblem of the devastating toll of the war in the Palestinian territory.

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