The story: They named her Sabreen after her late mother and Rouh, meaning soul, and she only had a few days to live.
A baby girl, born from her dying mother's womb, has died in a Gaza hospital following an Israeli airstrike, the doctor who was caring for her said on Friday (April 26).
Doctors delivered her by caesarean section.
Her mother, Sabreen Al-Sakani, was thirty weeks pregnant and died of her wounds in a Rafah hospital.
Her father, Shukri, and her three-year-old sister, Malak, were also killed in the raid that hit the family home in Rafah.
Rami Sheikh Jouda, the child’s uncle, had understood that she would succeed, and was shocked by the call from the hospital.
“They told me the girl became weak, and it was only 10 hours between the time I was there with her and when I got the news, and he said the girl had complications and died.”
Sabreen Rouh was suffering from respiratory problems and a weak immune system, according to what Dr. Mohamed Salama, head of the neonatal emergency unit at the Emirati Hospital, said.
He told Reuters by phone that her death on Thursday (April 25) was “a very difficult and painful day.”
“A soul is gone, my brother is gone, his daughter is gone, his relative is gone, and the house that brought us all together is gone. We hoped to find a memento of my brother (among the rubble), his memories of my daughter, his wife’s memories – there is nothing, everything has disappeared. Even their pictures, We wanted to find them but we couldn't find their mobile phones but we couldn't find anything. Traces of my brother remained.”
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the six-month war in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians in its campaign to eliminate Hamas.
A large part of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed by Israeli bombing.
