A premature Palestinian infant who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike has died.
Sabreen Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, said her uncle, Rami al-Sheikh.
Sabreen’s home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight on Saturday.
Her parents and four-year-old sister were killed.
First responders took the bodies to a nearby hospital, where medical workers performed an emergency caesarean section on her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, who was 30 weeks’ pregnant.
The infant was kept in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit at another hospital until she died five days later.
Al-Sheikh told The Associated Press that Sabreen was buried next to her father on Thursday.
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war, according to local health officials, who say about two-thirds of the dead are women and children.
The health officials don’t differentiate among combatants and civilians in their count.
Israel declared war on Hamas and unleashed an air and ground offensive in Gaza in response to the militants’ October 7 attack on southern Israel.
The militants killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took another 250 hostage.
More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel has conducted near-daily raids as it prepares for a possible offensive in the city.
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