A girl rescued from her dying mother’s womb at a Gaza hospital has died, the girl’s uncle said.
Sabreen Jouda born prematurely in Rafah on Sunday shortly after his mother, Sabreen al Sakani, died in a Israeli airstrike, which also killed his father Shoukri and his four-year-old sister Malak.
She was being cared for in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of another hospital.
She died on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, her uncle Rami al-Sheikh said.
Your house in the south Loop The city was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight on Saturday.
Sabreen Jouda was saved from her mother’s womb. Photo: Reuters
First responders took the bodies to a nearby hospital, where medical workers performed an emergency C-section on their mother, who was 30 weeks pregnant.
Al-Sheikh, who cared for her, told The Associated Press that Sabreen was buried next to her father on Thursday.
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More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas wasaccording to local health officials, who say about two-thirds of the dead are women and children.
Health officials do not differentiate between combatants and civilians in their count.
Israel declared that it was in Hamas and unleashed an air and ground offensive in Gaza in response to the October 7 attack on southern Israel.
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Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took another 250 hostages in its attack.
More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has carried out almost daily raids as it prepares for a possible offensive on the city.