TO girl saved from the womb after his mother was fatally wounded by a Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died in one of the besieged hospitals in the war-torn Palestinian territory less than a week after her mother, CBS News has learned. Sabreen Erooh died Thursday night, five days after doctors performed an emergency cesarean section on her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, who died as doctors frantically pumped oxygen by hand into her daughter’s underdeveloped lungs. she.
Al-Sakani was only six months pregnant when she was killed. Her husband Shoukri and her other daughter, three-year-old Malak, were also killed in the first of two Israeli strikes that hit homes in the south. Loop city of Rafah on Saturday. At least 22 people were killed in the attacks, mostly children, according to The Associated Press.
Images of Sabreen Erooh’s tiny pink body, limp and barely alive, being rushed to a hospital wrapped in a blanket, intensified international condemnation of Israel’s tactics in Gaza, which the Hamas-run enclave’s Health Ministry said They have killed more than 34,000 people. most of them women and children.
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Baby Sabreen’s uncle, Rami al-Sheikh, who had offered to care for the girl, told the AP on Friday that she had died on Thursday after five days in an incubator.
“We were very attached to this baby,” he told the AP near his niece’s grave in a Rafah cemetery.
“God had taken something from us, but he gave us something in return,” the survival of the premature girl, he said, “but (now) he has taken them all away. My brother’s family is completely exterminated. They have been erased from the record civil. There is no trace of him.”
“This goes beyond war,” said the United Nations human rights chief. Volker Turk said on Tuesday. “Every 10 minutes a child is killed or injured (in Gaza)… They are protected by the laws of war, and yet they are the ones who are disproportionately paying the ultimate price for this war.”
Unnamed at the time, the little girl initially had a tag placed on her tiny arm that read: “The baby of martyr Sabreen al Sakani.” Her aunt named her Sabreen Erooh, meaning “soul of Sabreen”, after her mother. She weighed only 3.1 pounds when she was born, according to her bbc.
“These children were sleeping. What did they do? What was their fault?” said a family relative, Umm Kareem, after the weekend strikes. “Pregnant women at home, children sleeping, the husband’s aunt is 80 years old. What did this woman do? Did she fire missiles?”
The Israel Defense Forces said its strikes targeted Hamas infrastructure and fighters in Rafah. The IDF and Israel’s political leaders have repeatedly insisted that they take all possible measures to avoid civilian casualties, but have vowed to complete their stated mission of destroying Hamas in response to the militant group’s Oct. 1 attack. 7 terrorist attacks.
As part of that mission, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau has promised to order his forces to carry out a ground operation in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians are believed to have sought refuge from the war. The IDF has attacked the city with regular airstrikes, targeting Hamas, he says, ahead of the expected operation.
The United States has urged Israel to take a more targeted approach in its war against Hamas and, along with other Israeli allies and humanitarian organizations, has warned against launching a large-scale ground offensive in Rafah.