PHOTOS: Gazan twins lose their mother after Israeli strike

A 14-month-old Palestinian baby Wateen was injured in an Israeli strike which killed her mother and injured her twin brother Ahmed.

Reuters photographs showed the baby at the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

A picture of twins Wateen and Ahmed is displayed on a phone as Wateen rests at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters

Wateen is bottle-fed at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters

Wateen rests at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. — Reuters

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