Premature baby rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza

Rafah, Gaza Strip: A premature Palestinian baby, rescued from his mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died, his uncle said.

Sabreen Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, Rami al-Sheikh said.

Sabreen’s home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight last Saturday. Her parents and her four-year-old sister were murdered.

First responders took the bodies to a nearby hospital, where medical workers performed an emergency cesarean section on their mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, who was 30 weeks pregnant. The baby remained in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit at another hospital until she died five days later.