Her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani al-Sheikh, who was 30 weeks pregnant, was seriously injured when the Israeli strike hit the family home in Rafah
A medic cares for 'Sabreen al-Ruh al-Sheikh', a baby delivered preterm by caesarian section minutes before the death of her mother, gravely injured in an Israeli air strike, at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: AFP via Getty ImagesRelatives gathered by a tiny sandy grave in Gaza on Friday, where they had buried a baby girl who lived just a few days after doctors delivered her from the womb of her dying mother following an Israeli air strike.
“She was born while her respiratory system wasn’t mature, and her immune system was very weak and that is what led to her death. She joined her family as a martyr,” Dr Salama said. Much of Gaza has been laid to waste by Israeli bombardments and most of the enclave's hospitals have been badly damaged, while those still operating are short of electricity, medicine sterilisation equipment and other supplies.
She had been placed in an incubator alongside another infant, with the words “The baby of the martyr Sabreen Al-Sakani” written on tape across her chest. “We are left with no memories of my brother, his daughter, or his wife. Everything was gone, even their pictures, their mobile phones, we couldn’t find them,” the uncle said.
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