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Posted: 2024-03-03T16:54:52Z | Updated: 2024-03-03T16:54:52Z

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.

An Israeli strike hit the home of her extended family in the southern Gaza city of Rafah late Saturday, killing her children, her husband and 11 other relatives and leaving another nine missing under the rubble, according to survivors and local health officials.

She had woken up at around 10 p.m. to breastfeed Naeim, the boy, and went back to sleep with him in one arm and Wissam, the girl, in the other. Her husband was sleeping beside them.

The explosion came an hour and a half later. The house collapsed.

I screamed for my children and my husband, she said Sunday, as she sobbed and cradled a babys blanket to her chest. They were all dead. Their father took them and left me behind.

She closed her eyes, leaned her head against the wall and patted the bundle in a calming gesture that, finally, shed had the chance to give.

(GRAPHIC PHOTO BELOW: Image depicts death)