Israel's assault on Gaza leaves thousands of orphans — so many that local doctors employ an acronym when registering them: WCNSF, or 'wounded child, no surviving family'.
Israel's assault on Gaza leaves thousands of orphans — so many that local doctors employ an acronym when registering them: WCNSF, or "wounded child, no surviving family".Palestinian father Mohammed Abuel-Qomasan, who was forced to flee from northern Gaza to Deir al-Balah due to Israeli attacks, mourns after he learnt the news that his wife, four-day-old twin babies and his wife's mother were killed in Israeli attacks.
More than 10 months into its war on Gaza, Israel's relentless bombardment of the isolated territory has wiped out extended families. It has left parents without children and children without parents, brothers or sisters.A father in Palestine’s Gaza went to get birth certificates for his two newborn sons.
The strike that killed Abuel-Qomasan's wife and newborns — a boy, Asser, and a girl, Ayssel — also killed the twins' maternal grandmother. As he sat in a hospital, stunned into near-silence by the loss, he held up the twins' birth certificates. The vast majority of Gaza's population has fled their homes, often multiple times. The coastal enclave, which is just 40 kilometres long by about 11 kilometres wide, has been completely sealed off by Israeli forces since May.
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