‘Whose is he?’: A Gaza father’s fight for a child who might not be his

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A Gaza father, Mohammed Lubbad, is seeking to confirm the paternity of a child born shortly before his wife's death during an Israeli airstrike in October 2023. A dispute arose when another family registered a baby matching the description, and Lubbad is now unable to access DNA testing in Gaza to resolve the uncertainty.

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Mohammed Lubbad's wife Amal was pregnant when she died in Israeli air strikes. Then he was told she had given birth.

‘Whose is he?’: A Gaza father’s fight for a child who might not be his

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