Newborn twins were killed in Gaza while their father was at the local government office to register their birth. The boy Aser and the girl Ajsel were only four days old when their father Mohamed Abu al-Kumsan went to collect their birth certificates, according to the BBC.
While he was away, his neighbors called him and said that their house in Deir al-Balah had been bombed. His wife and the twins' grandmother were also killed in an Israeli airstrike. "I don't know what happened. I was told that a shell hit the house," said the father.
Gaza's health ministry, which is run by Hamas, says 115 infants were born and then killed during the war. According to the AP news agency, the family followed the order to evacuate Gaza City in the first weeks of the war between Israel and Gaza, seeking shelter in the central part of the strip, according to the instructions of the Israeli army, reports Hina.
A school building was hit a few days ago
The BBC has asked the Israeli military for comment on the attack and is awaiting a response. Israel says it is trying to avoid injuring civilians and blames their deaths on Hamas, which operates in densely populated areas, including using civilian buildings as shelters.
But officials rarely comment on individual cases of Israeli strikes. In recent weeks, several such shelters have been attacked in Gaza. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike on a school building sheltering 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 Hamas and Islamic Jihad military facility," which Hamas denied. Israel disputed the death toll, and the BBC could not independently verify figures from either side.
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