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A bomb in Gaza's rubble wounds twins who thought it was a toy
Manila Bulletin
|October 27, 2025
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.
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Nabila Shorbasi, who was injured by an unexploded ordnance along with her six-year-old twin brother Yahya, lies on a bed at Patient's Friends Charity Hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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 were rushed to Shifa hospital on Friday. “It was extremely difficult.”
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