‘I Buried My Own Children’: A Syrian Father’s Grief
He turned the babies’ faces toward the camera and said, "tell them, ‘goodbye dad.’" APRIL 6, 2017
In an interview with a local activist, Mr. al-Yousef described the start of the airstrikes at 7 a.m. "I took my wife
and children and left the house," he said, through choking sobs.
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close to my heart," Mr. al-Yousef said in the interview. that I saw Ahmad and Aya, and carried them
By MEGAN SPECIAAPRIL 6, 2017
Aya and Ahmad, 9-month-old twins, were among the 86 people killed in Tuesday’s gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria.
" He said his children began to cough and he handed them to their mother and told her to flee the town.
that As we were leaving, just about five minutes later, we started to smell nasty smells.
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He walked through the graves, calling out the names of other family members who were also killed
and buried in the graveyard, pausing at each, and sobbing.
Their father, Abdul Hameed al-Yousef, asked a photographer to take pictures as he held their bodies.
I buried my own children." He said he had lost at least 25 members of his extended family in the attack.