{"id":271562,"date":"2024-08-19T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=271562"},"modified":"2024-08-15T06:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T05:42:17","slug":"he-had-two-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/08\/he-had-two-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"He Had Two Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caitlin Johnstone<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza\u2019s screams.
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14 Aug 2024 <\/em>– He had two babies. Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan had two babies and a loving wife.<\/p>\n

Now he has nobody.<\/p>\n

An Israeli airstrike killed both his babies<\/a>, and their mother, and their grandmother, while he was out collecting their birth certificates.<\/p>\n

They had just been born.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a video<\/a> of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza\u2019s screams.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it feels weird that we\u2019re not all screaming like that man all the time, as long as we share a planet with this nightmare. Sometimes I kind of want to.<\/p>\n

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A grieving Palestinian father and husband, Mohammed Abu Al-Qomsan, loses his temper upon discovering that his 4-day-old twin babies, along with their mother, Dr. Jumana Arafa, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike. pic.twitter.com\/QEXbFe8OXT<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ihab Hassan (@IhabHassane) August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n