A tragic incident occurred in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, where a woman lost her five-month-old twins and her husband due to an Israeli airstrike.
According to the Associated Press on the 3rd (local time), Rania Abu Anza (29), a woman living in Rafah, Gaza Strip, lost her entire family in an airstrike the night before.
Abu Anja and her husband, who were of the same age, gave birth to twin siblings through three rounds of in vitro fertilization after 10 years of marriage. Her husband, who was a day laborer, cared so much about his children that he named his daughter after himself.
At around 10 p.m. on the 2nd, Abu Anja breastfed her son Naeem and then fell asleep with Naeem and daughter Wissam in her arms. Her husband was also sleeping right next to her.
However, about an hour later, the once happy family in Abu Anza was shattered. At around 11 p.m., an explosion occurred due to an Israeli airstrike and the house collapsed. Abu Anja’s children, her husband, and 11 of her relatives were killed. Nine people were buried in the rubble and went missing. Of the dead, six were children and one was a pregnant woman.
Palestinians are carrying the bodies of twins who died in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on the 3rd (local time). Rapha = AP/Newsis?Abu Anja “screamed. “The children’s father took the children and left me behind,” he screamed. He hugged the children wrapped in white shrouds and cried, “Who will call me mom now?”
Abu Anja said he did not get enough time with his children. “I lost the people who were most precious to me. I don’t want to live here. I want to leave this country. “I am tired of war,” she confessed.
“We were all civilians, most of them children,” Farouk Abu Anja, a relative, told The Associated Press. “None of us were militants.”
Regarding the airstrikes, the Israeli military explained, “We are taking feasible precautions to comply with international law and reduce civilian casualties.” At the same time, he argued that such an attack was inevitable because the Palestinian armed group Hamas had deployed fighters and weapons in residential areas.
Hyewon Lee, Donga.com
Source: Donga
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