Tragedy in Gaza. Newborn twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike while their father was at a local government service to register their birth, the BBC reports.

Asher and Aisel were just four days old when their father, Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan, went to collect their birth certificates. Then his neighbors called him to inform him that their house in Deir al-Balakh had been bombed.

He was also killed by the blow his wife and the twins’ grandmother.

“I don’t know what happened,” he declared. “They told me a shell hit the house.”

“I didn’t even get to celebrate about them,” he added.

The Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza supports it that 115 infants were killed during the war.

According to the AP news agency, the family followed the directive to leave Gaza City in the early weeks of the Israel-Gaza war, seeking refuge in the central part of the enclave, as they had been told by the Israeli military.

The BBC points out that it has sought comment from the Israeli military, but has not received one still no answer.