'Who will call me mother?': Gazan woman mourns twin babies killed in strike
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00:00 Rescue workers poured through the rubble of a home in Rafah following an Israeli airstrike.
00:06 Thirteen members of one family were killed in the bombing, including two infant twins
00:10 and their father, five months old.
00:13 They were almost the same age as the war itself.
00:17 Praise be to God.
00:18 Our Allah honoured me and blessed me with a daughter and a son.
00:22 I gave birth in my eighth month.
00:24 I gave birth in the war.
00:26 The war started on Saturday and I gave birth on Friday.
00:30 I didn't get enough of them, I swear I didn't get enough of them and their father has gone
00:34 too.
00:35 The Palestinian exclave is facing a humanitarian catastrophe.
00:39 Gaza Health Authority said at least 15 children had died in recent days of dehydration in
00:45 the Kamal Adwan hospital.
00:47 The United Nations warns that half a million people are on the brink of famine.
00:51 Residents of Gaza City have started heading south, saying queuing for aid in their hometown
00:56 had become too dangerous after more than 100 people were killed in an incident involving
01:01 an aid convoy that Palestinians accuse Israeli troops of firing on.
01:06 Even facing extreme hunger, they prefer safety.
01:10 We've reached a stage of hunger like never before.
01:13 When my daughter wants to eat in the morning, I can't provide her with food or drink.
01:17 Where am I going to get it from?
01:20 So it comes to this, my daughter, who was not killed by the conflict, could die of starvation.
01:24 I won't let this happen.
01:26 I will run over the entire world so that my daughter stays in my life.
01:30 She's my only daughter and my entire life.
01:33 Another aid truck from a Kuwaiti charity was destroyed in an Israeli drone strike on Sunday.
01:39 Several people nearby were also killed.
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