Israel blames Hamas for hiding within civilian areas and said today it had

killed about 17,000 Hamas fighters but even if that's true that still leaves more

than 20,000 civilians dead, and of course, countless families crushed.

In English, there is no word for the father who has lost his children.

Today, Muhammad Abu al-Kum-Sans surrounded himself with the

doll that will never be held, the matching outfits that will never be worn by

his twins Isal and Asser born just three days before the

family says they were killed in an Israeli strike. When I married Dr. Jumana

and had our two children my joy was immense.

Unfortunately, I didn't have three days to enjoy their presence.

May God rest their soul.

There are no words for the father who has lost his children.

When he learned of their deaths, he also learned his wife died with them in a single moment he had lost everything

her name written in pen Dr Jumana Arfa who just three days before had posted on

Facebook new twins, a burden too difficult to bear.

And yet he bore the weight of her body, a pallbearer for his own wife.

And he prayed at his family's funeral.

Death stalks Gaza. And the men who dig Gaza's graves have run out of room.

This is not a cemetery. It is a patch of sand that Naji Abu Hatib said today could one day be a zone.

Since the war began, we haven't stopped for even a minute.

We are working beyond our capacity.

I swear we are destroyed. Life has been ruined. We have

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