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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abdel Kareem Hana and Samy Magdy

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

Hanan Shakshk cares her grandson Yahya Shorbasi, who was injured by an unexploded ordnance along with his six-year-old twin sister Nabila, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A fragile ceasefire in Gaza City was brutally interrupted for the Shorbasi family when their six-year-old twins, Yahya and Nabila, were severely injured by an explosion.

The children had been playing near their damaged home when they discovered a round object, which detonated upon contact, leaving them bleeding on the ground.

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