A The girl’s mother, father and older sister were killed by a missile that hit the family home during the night, in Rafah, south of Gaza, according to relatives. His father and older sister died instantly.
The mother died on the way to the hospital, and the Doctors managed to remove the baby alive from the dead woman’s womb.
However, the child, who was named Sabreen al Sakani by the team responsible for the girl at the hospital, was born prematurely and had serious problems because his respiratory and immune systems were not yet fully formedaccording to doctor Mohammad Salama, head of the neonatal unit at the Emirates Hospital, where she was admitted.
“I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” Salama told Reuters news agency by telephone. “She was born when her respiratory system was not yet mature and her immune system was not yet mature and that is what led to her death.”
The doctor also said that the girl’s relatives, such as her paternal grandmother and uncle, had asked the team to do everything they could to save her.
“(Sabreen al-Rouh’s) grandmother asked me and the doctors to take care of her because she would be someone who would keep the memory of her mother, father and sister alive.”
The baby’s body was buried this Friday.
“My brother, his wife and daughter are gone, his brother-in-law and the home that brought us together are gone,” the baby’s paternal uncle told Reuters at the funeral. “We are left with no memories of my brother, his daughter or his wife. Everything is gone, even the photos, the cell phones,” said the uncle.
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