A bomb in Gaza’s rubble wounds twins who thought it was a toy

A Bomb in Gaza's Rubble Wounds Twins Who Thought it Was a Toy

The Shorbasi family was sitting in their severely damaged house in Gaza City, enjoying the relative calm of the ceasefire. Then they heard an explosion and rushed outside to find their 6-year-old twins bleeding on the ground. The boy, Yahya, and his sister, Nabila, had discovered a round object while playing. One touch, and it went off. “It was like a toy,” their grandfather, Tawfiq Shorbasi, said of the unexploded ordnance, after the children w…

Bomb in Gaza’s ruins wounds twins who thought it was a toy

Twins Yahya and Nabila have sustained life-threatening injuries after playing with what they thought was a toy found in Gaza’s rubble.

A bomb in Gaza’s rubble badly wounds six-year-old twins who thought it was a toy

The children had been playing near their damaged home when they discovered a round object

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A bomb in Gaza's rubble wounds twins who thought it was a toy

Six-year-old twins in Gaza City were playing outside when they saw a round object and thought it was a toy. Then it exploded.

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