ALBAWABA - Social media was blasted and filled with sorrow over the killing of twins in Gaza along with their mother in an Israeli airstrike.
According to local media, 4-day-old twins were killed in an Israeli attack in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip while their father was at a local government office to register their birth.
Mohammad Abu AlQumsan, the father was shocked to come back to find his newborn twins; Asser and Aysel, and their mother Dr. Juman Arfa were killed in an Israeli airstrike as the war in Gaza has entered its 10th month.
BBC, Sky News blasted over headlines on twins killed by Israeli attack in Gaza
Western media was heavily blasted by activists and pro-Palestinians over their coverage of the story of the twins who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday.
BBC and Sky News, both British, have covered the story of the newborn twins however they received heavy backlash on social media.
BBC wrote: "Baby twins killed in Gaza as father registered births," meanwhile, Sky News also posted the news under the headline: "Gaza: Four-day-old twins killed in airstrike as father went to get birth certificates."
On the other hand, BBC mentioned in the first paragraph that the strike was carried out by the Israeli army. However, Sky News didn't and only reported that "Israel's military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike."
"Killed by who?," human rights activists and pro-Palestinians took to social media to decry headlines which failed to detail that the airstrike was carried out by the Israeli army.
A person commented: "What is a Gaza airstrike @SkyNews? What caused it. Name it. I'll help you. Israel killed the 4-day-old twins, their mother and their grandmother. But I thought Israel only targets "terrorists." Oh no, looks like the world can see your lies and complicity in genocide by hiding news."
Furthermore, another told BBC: "Why so afraid to say it, who killed them? Rest in peace, little angels."
