The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) highlighted the toll on families in Gaza from Israel’s onslaught, describing a recent Israeli airstrike that killed four-day-old twins and their mother as “heartbreaking”, Anadolu reports.

“How many more children will be killed in Gaza or undergo indescribable suffering before the nightmare ends?” the agency’s executive director, Catherine Russell, said in a post on X.

Citing the incident Tuesday involving the twins, who were killed as their father, Mohammad Abu al-Qumsan, went to collect their birth certificates, Russell said: “Heartbreaking to hear that newborn twins and their mother were among the latest casualties.”

“It’s past time for a ceasefire, and the unconditional release of hostages,” she added.

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