The Gazan baby who was rescued from her mother’s womb after she died in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza last weekend, died after five days of fighting to stay alive, a relative confirmed this Friday. of the baby.
Sabreen al Sakani, named after her dead mother, was born by caesarean section in a Rafah hospital, and doctors resuscitated her using a hand pump that brought air to her lungs, but she died on Thursday and was buried next to her mother. The BBC reported this Friday.
“After trying to save her from her mother’s womb […] she could not continue for more than five days and her soul asked to leave us and join her family this morning,” the cousin of the little girl’s father, Abdull Salam, wrote on Facebook yesterday. Jouda, who mourned the death of all the members of this family.
In the deadly Israeli attack, the seven and a half month pregnant mother suffered serious injuries, and both her husband Shukri Ahmed Jouda and her three-year-old daughter Malak lost their lives. Only the baby remained alive in her mother’s womb when she was rescued. After taking Sabreen to the hospital, doctors performed an emergency cesarean section to deliver the baby, who was then placed in an incubator, although her condition was critical.
In total, after six and a half months of war in Gaza, at least 14,778 children have died in the Palestinian enclave, according to yesterday’s data from the Ministry of Health of the Hamas Government, including thirty in hospitals as a result of hunger and acute dehydration. .
Last weekend, another 16 children were killed in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, where Israel is expected to begin a ground offensive, when the apartment building where the Sabreen family lived was bombed by Israel. According to the Israeli military, the goal was to attack Hamas Islamists’ fighters and infrastructure.
