A newborn baby who was still in the womb when her mother was killed by an Israeli bombardment in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah was in good health Monday after being transferred to a new hospital in the war-torn Palestinian territory. The strike killed the baby’s mother, Sabreen, her father, Shoukri, and her three-year-old sibling, Malak. Her aunt named the baby Sabreen Erooh after her mother, which translates to “soul of Sabreen.”
“We tried to rescue the patient,” Dr. Ahmad Fawzi, a doctor at a local hospital, told British network Sky News. “We realized she was pregnant. We had to do an emergency cesarean to rescue the infant. “Thank God, we were able to save the baby.”
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Without a name at the time, the infant had a label placed on her little arm that read, “The baby of the martyr Sabreen al Sakani.”
According to Sky News, her uncle has stated that he will take care of her from now on.
Two Israeli strikes on Rafah on Saturday killed at least 22 individuals, the majority of whom were youngsters, according to the Associated Press, quoting officials at the adjacent Kuwaiti Hospital, which treated the wounded. The initial strike murdered the baby’s family. The second killed 17 children and a woman, according to the Associated Press.
“The youngsters were sleeping. What did they do? “What was their fault?” Umm Kareem, a relative of the family, stated: “Pregnant women at home, sleeping children; the husband’s aunt is 80 years old.” What did the woman do? Did she fire missiles? We express our concerns to God.”
The baby was transferred from the Kuwaiti hospital to the Emirati hospital for further treatment.
More than half of Gaza’s estimated 2.3 million inhabitants have sought sanctuary in Rafah due to conflict elsewhere in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Israel has conducted near-daily air attacks on the area and pledged to expand its ground offensive there to pursue Hamas combat units still holed up in the city.
“In the coming days, we will increase political and military pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to bring back our hostages and achieve victory,” Netanyahu said in a statement on Sunday. “We will land more and more painful blows on Hamas soon.”
