Baby born by emergency caesarean as mother killed in Gaza


by BBC News

BBC News— The infant's entire immediate family died in Israeli air strikes on Rafah on Saturday night.

The Guardian—Gaza doctors save baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike. Girl delivered via emergency caesarean section as woman lay dying from head injuries in RafahMiddle East crisis – live updatesDoctors in Gaza have saved a baby from the womb of her mother as she lay dying from head injuries sustained in an in Israeli airstrike. The girl was delivered via an emergency caesarean section at a hospital in Rafah.The woman, Sabreen al-Sakani, was 30 weeks pregnant when her family home was hit by an airstrike. Her husband, Shoukri, and their three-year-old daughter,...

Raw Story—Baby delivered from dying mother's womb in Gaza 'miracle'. Under a ceaseless storm of strikes in Gaza, a baby girl has survived insurmountable odds as the only member of her family left alive after she was delivered by Caesarian section as her mother lay dying.At just seven months pregnant, her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, reached the emergency unit in critical condition after she was fatally wounded in the head and abdomen at the weekend.An Israeli air strike hit her family's house in the east of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, witnesses told AFP."It's...

BBC News—Israel-Gaza: Baby saved from dead mother's womb after Israeli strike. Palestinian girl Sabreen is alive following her incredible birth in the wake of an Israeli strike.