Keep hitting Assad: dad of slain kids

THE SYRIAN father who was photographed cradling his dead baby twins killed in a chemical attack wants the U.S. to drop more bombs on government forces.

“I’d like to thank President Trump and the U.S. administration on the initial steps they took against the airport that killed my children and all the martyrs,” Abdel Hameed alYousef told ABC News.

“But I didn’t expect the strikes to stop. I was surprised. Why did President Trump stop the strikes? Why one airport, one base?”

The viral photo of al-Yousef clutching his lifeless 9-monthold twins starkly displayed the horror of the Tuesday nervegas attack that killed 87 civilians.

Al-Yousef (pictured) also lost his wife and nearly two dozen other relatives in the ghastly strike on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun.

The anguished father spoke out two days after the U.S. launched 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base in retaliation for President Bashar Assad’s chemical attack.

Al-Yousef had awoken in a hospital following the poisonous gas assault, unaware that his wife and kids were dead.

His eyes filling with tears, al-Yousef recalled the moment he first saw the tiny bodies of his babies Ahmad and Aya.

They appeared limp and lifeless, with foam oozing out of their mouths.

Al-Yousef said he wiped off the foam and cradled his dead children in his arms.

“I told them, ‘Hello darlings. I took too long. I rescued everyone else but I couldn’t rescue you,’” al-Yousef told ABC News. “I was expecting them to hug me back.”

He later walked through town, carrying his dead children in his arms, on his way to a makeshift cemetery.

“I was wishing not to reach the burial site, to spend more time with them, as much as possible,” he said. “I wished to be buried with them, not bid them goodbye.”