Years of waiting, a miracle of four babies, one deadly strike: A Gaza family story

After 15 years of failing to conceive, Wafaa and Fadi al-Baba, a married couple from the Gaza Strip, thought they would need a miracle to have children.

Wafaa had long had a profile picture on her Facebook account featuring a woman in prayer with the caption: "God, give me what I wish to have."

And on 9 September, the miracle Wafaa and Fadi had prayed for happened when Maha, Khaled, Abdul-Khaleq, and Mahmoud - a quadruplet set of a girl and three boys - were born.

Their story became known among the people of Gaza, and many shared their congratulations to the happy couple on social media after the birth was reported on local news.

Tragically, however, the dream would prove to be short-lived. Exactly one month later, Wafaa and her four babies would be killed in an Israeli air strike on their home in Gaza City, leaving Fadi the sole survivor of his new family.

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