17 August 2024
Unanswered questions surround surgical strike on newborn twins
Why were two newborn babies, their mother and grandmother precision targeted in their home by the Israeli Occupation Force on August 13?
It does not make sense that newborn twins, Aser and Aysel, were a danger to the occupation.
On August 13, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan left their apartment in Deir al-Balah to collect birth certificates for his three-day-old twins – Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl. At the hospital, he received news that his family had been targeted and were in the hospital morgue. He collected their death certificates later the same day.
In the IOF’s typically sadistic manner, they waited until he left the apartment before killing his vulnerable and innocent family.
But why was this family specifically targeted?
In October 2023, Al Jazeera reported that Israel was targeting its employees and their families.
Early on in the genocide, it became clear that medics, nurses and anyone connected with the press were targets for the IOF.
Al Jazeera correspondent Youmna ElSayed and her family received a phone call from the Israeli military who warned them to leave their home and move south. They subsequently fled.
The “Voice of Gaza” Wael El Dahdouh’s wife, children and grandchildren were also targeted in the Jabalia Massacre and his son was also killed months later.
Days after this attack, Al Jazeera also reported that Israel targeted 19 family members of one of its Gaza-based studio engineers - Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan. Like the twins father, the broadcast engineer was also from Jabalia refugee camp.At the time, Al Jazeera said:
“This unforgivable act, during the Jabalia massacre, claimed the lives of Mohamed’s father, two sisters, eight nephews and nieces, his brother, his brother’s wife, and their four children, his sister-in-law, and one uncle. We urge the international community to address this grave injustice with utmost urgency to justice served for the families of Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan and countless other innocent Gazan civilians who lost their loved ones,”
On August 13, the twins father Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan confirmed that he left the Jabalia refugee camp in Northern Gaza on October 13, 2023.
Is the grieving father and the Al Jazeera engineer one and the same person? If so then this would be the second time in this genocide that his immediate family members were targeted because of his job. This crime against humanity must be investigated.
