"Miracle" in Gaza:

Doctors delivered baby from dying mother’s womb

A newborn baby, who was still in the womb when his mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, was named in honor of his mother. The baby's father and his three-year-old sister were also killed in the attack.(Bild: AFP)

Doctors in the Gaza Strip delivered a baby by caesarean section from the womb of his dying mother at the weekend. "It is a miracle that she was still alive despite her breathing difficulties," said Sahib al-Shams, director of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah. The newborn was in stable condition, hospital staff said on Tuesday.

The mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, died ten minutes after the operation, al-Shams said. She was seven months pregnant when she arrived at the hospital with injuries to her head and abdomen. The doctors noticed the pregnancy during the examination and decided to perform a caesarean section immediately despite the lack of anesthetics.

Supplied with oxygen and antibiotics
The newborn was taken to the pediatric clinic of the Emirati Hospital, which had been set up in Rafah in December. There, the baby was placed in an incubator and given oxygen and antibiotics, a hospital representative told AFP. Sabreen al-Sakani was injured in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip, in which the baby's father and sister were also killed.

(Bild: AFP)

The war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas in the Palestinian territory was triggered by Hamas' unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7. Fighters from Hamas, which is classified as a terrorist organization by the EU and the USA, and other militant Palestinian groups invaded Israeli towns and committed atrocities against civilians. According to Israeli figures, they killed around 1,170 people and took around 250 people hostage in the Gaza Strip.

Since then, Israel has taken massive military action in the Gaza Strip. According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, which cannot be independently verified, more than 34,100 people have been killed so far.