A baby girl who was delivered from her dying mother’s womb in a Gaza hospital has died after just a few days of life, according to the doctor who was caring for her.
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the six-month-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants, according to the Gaza health ministry. Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians in its campaign to eradicate Hamas.
The baby had been named Rouh, meaning Soul. According to Reuters, her mother, Sabreen Al-Sakani, was seriously injured when the Israeli strike hit the family home in Rafah on Saturday night. Her husband Shukri and their three-year-old daughter Malak were killed.
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She was rushed to the Emirati hospital in Rafah. 30 weeks pregnant Sabreen died of her wounds but doctors were able to save the baby, delivering her by Caesarean section. However, the baby suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system, said Doctor Mohammad Salama, head of the emergency neo-natal unit at Emirati Hospital, who had been caring for Rouh. She died on Thursday.
“I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” he told the news agency by phone. “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,” Salama said. “(Baby Rouh’s) grandmother urged me and the doctors to take care of her because she would be someone that would keep the memory of her mother, husband, and sister alive, but it was God’s will that she died,” Salama said.
(With agency inputs)
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