Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan had just picked up the birth certificates of his newborn twins when he learned that they, along with his wife and her mother, had been killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip apartment where they had sought shelter.
He waved the laminated documents, meant to be a sign of rare joy in the besieged Palestinian enclave, as a man held him and walked into the morgue where the bodies were taken, while he wept.