According to Palestinian health officials, a baby girl was born into the womb of a Palestinian woman who was killed in the Gaza city of Rafah, along with her husband and daughter, by an Israeli attack. Overnight, there were intensified strikes that claimed 19 lives.
They said that among the dead, who were killed in hits on two houses, were thirteen children from one family.
The infant, weighing 1.4 kg (3.09 lb) and delivered via emergency caesarean section, was stable and gradually getting better, according to Mohammed Salama, one of the attending physicians.
Thirty weeks into her pregnancy, Sabreen Al-Sakani, was her mother.
The infant was named “The baby of the martyr Sabreen Al-Sakani” and was placed in an incubator with another baby in a hospital in Rafah. The words were taped across the baby’s chest.
According to her uncle Rami Al-Sheikh, Malak, Sakani’s young daughter who died in the strike, had wanted to name her new sister Rouh, which means spirit in Arabic. “The little girl Malak was happy that her sister was coming to the world,” he stated.
The doctor, Salama, estimated that the baby would be in the hospital for three to four weeks. “After that, we’ll check on her departure and the child’s placement with the family, grandparents, and/or aunts and uncles. This is the greatest tragedy. “This child was born an orphan, even if she survives,” he remarked.
According to Palestinian health officials, the 13 children perished in an attack on the Abdel Aal family’s second house. That strike also claimed the lives of two women.
When questioned about the number of dead in Rafah, a spokeswoman for the Israeli military said that many terrorist targets, including armed individuals and military bases, were hit in Gaza.
“Did you see one man in all of those killed?” a Palestinian man named Saqr Abdel Aal, whose family was among the deceased, expressed his sorrow over the remains of a kid covered in a white shroud.
“They’re all women and kids,” he declared. “My entire identity has been wiped out, with my wife, children and everyone.”
According to Mohammad al-Behairi, his grandchild and daughter were still buried beneath the debris. It’s a depressing and hopeless feeling; we have nothing left in this life to be sad about. What other emotions are there for us to feel? How will you feel when you lose your kids, when you lose the people who are closest to you in life?” he asked.
“We are trapped.”
In an attempt to escape the Israeli onslaught that has destroyed most of Gaza over the past six months, more than half of the 2.3 million residents of Gaza have poured into Rafah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel needs to eliminate Hamas fighters in order to win the war, and Israel is threatening to launch a ground invasion into the region.
To prevent more civilian deaths among the Palestinian people, President Joe Biden has urged Israel not to initiate a major offensive in Rafah.
More than 34,000 people have died in Israel’s assault, according to Palestinian health authorities. The attack started on October 7, when Hamas fighters attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping another 253, according to Israeli tallies.
In the last 24 hours, Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip have left 48 Palestinians dead and 79 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Weeks after Israeli army forces withdrew from the medical facility, teams from the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service reported that they had recovered sixty bodies from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the enclave. That brought the total number of corpses removed from the hospital grounds since April 12 to 210.
According to a statement from the service, there are still about 2,000 unaccounted-for people in Khan Younis and 1,000 in the central regions of the Gaza Strip whose bodies cannot be extricated due to a lack of heavy machinery and equipment for removing rubble.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Israel said that its soldiers opened fire on three Palestinians who attacked them in the larger of the two Palestinian territories, the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry said that all three of the attackers had died.
There has been an increase in violence in the West Bank lately.
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