At a morgue in Deir el-Balah, a man collapses in grief as he identifies the bodies of his newborn twins and their mother, all in one body bag. The recent airstrike in Khan Younis has resulted in numerous casualties, including many children. The conflict has left thousands of orphans and prompted doctors to use the term ‘WCNSF’—wounded child, no surviving family member—to categorise these victims. Nearly 16,500 Palestinian children have been killed over ten months, with many bodies still buried under rubble, erasing entire generations and leaving survivors too young to grasp their loss. Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah in Gaza, Palestine.
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