‘No one left but you’: Bereaved Gaza father clutches wounded baby boy
By AFP
23 May 2021 |
1:46 pm
Inside a Gaza hospital, Mohammad al-Hadidi cradled his baby boy Omar -- his only surviving child after Israeli air strikes killed his wife and four other sons in the night. After the strikes, rescue workers pulled the five-month-old from the arms of his dead mother early Saturday, one of his tiny legs fractured in three places.
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