Gaza mourns for baby who died after being rescued from dead mother’s womb

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In Gaza, relatives gathered around a small sandy grave on Friday to bid farewell to a baby girl who died just days after being born from her dying mother’s womb following an Israeli airstrike, news agency Reuters reported on Saturday. Was alive.

The baby was named Sabreen, after her mother Sabreen al-Saqani al-Sheikh, who had to undergo a premature cesarean section after her mother suffered injuries during an Israeli attack on their family home in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip. The birth was delivered through, Reuters reports,

According to the report, the girl’s father Shukri and her three-year-old sister Mala were also killed in the attack.

The girl’s uncle, Rami al-Sheikh Jouda, mourned her death, telling Reuters, “We have no memories left of our brother, his daughter or his wife. Everything was gone, even their photographs, their mobile phones, we couldn’t find them.”

Despite doctors’ efforts, the child died on Thursday of respiratory complications and a weakened immune system, Reuters reports. “I and other doctors tried to save him, but he died,” Dr. Mohammed Salama, head of the emergency newborn unit at the Emirati hospital, told Reuters. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day”.

Salama further talked about the challenges experienced by the baby, saying, “She was born when her respiratory system was not mature, and her immune system was very weak, and that is what led to her death. She joined her family as a martyr.”

The devastating toll of the conflict in Gaza is clear, with more than 34,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, confirmed dead in the six-month-long war between Israel and Hamas militants, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which Israel deliberately The allegations of targeting have been denied. Civilians in efforts to deal with Hamas.

Widespread destruction has left much of Gaza in ruins, with most hospitals severely damaged or lacking essential resources such as electricity and medical supplies.