Mohammed Abu Al-Qumsan had just picked up birth certificates for his newly-born twins when he found out that they had been killed, along with his wife and her mother, by an Israeli strike on the Gaza apartment where they had been sheltering.
Two men supported the bereaved father as he wept outside the morgue where the infants' corpses had been brought.
Mr al-Qumsan waved the laminated documents, which should have signified a rare moment of joy in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
"My wife is gone, my two babies and my mother-in-law. I was told it's a tank shell on the apartment they were in, in a house we were displaced to," the 31-year-old said.
He carried the corpses of his baby boy and girl, Asser and Ayssel, assisted by friends and surviving family members.
The bodies were wrapped in white shrouds, a common sight in Gaza, where Israel's land and air campaign has forced hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes, and then out of whatever shelter those civilians have found.
A man prayed as the bodies were placed in the back of a car. A crowd gathered and people looked on from the balcony of one of Gaza's overwhelmed emergency rooms, at the Al-Aqsa Maryrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the coastal strip.
Ten months after the Gaza war erupted, air strikes, artillery shells and severe shortages of medicine, food and clean water have brought one of the world's most densely populated places to its knees.
"Today, it was registered in history that the occupation army targets newborn children who are barely four days old, twins along with their mother and grandmother," hospital doctor Khalil al-Daqran said.
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Israel claims that it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties and has accused Hamas of using human shields, charges which the Islamist militants deny.
The Palestinian Iranian-backed group started the conflict almost a year ago in a cross-border raid on Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel struck back with an offensive that has killed nearly 40,000 people and wounded more than 92,000, according to Gaza health authorities, and reduced much of the enclave to rubble.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, 115 infants have been born and then killed during the war.
The death toll in Gaza is nearing 40,000 since 7 October, when Israeli forces launched an offensive against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in response to an attack on southern Israel.
The latest figures from the health ministry in Gaza put the number of injured at more than 92,000.
Israeli authorities said 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage in the 7 October attack.
