A Palestinian baby girl has been delivered from the womb of her mother who was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza. The 23-year-old woman died after an airstrike hit her house in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. “Her pregnant mother was brought here and when we checked the foetus it was alive, so the doctors did fast surgery and brought the baby out breathing,” Doctor Wajdi Kisht told Reuters.
“She is in a serious condition. She is alive, using the machines, and we hope she will be better so she can be moved to her grandmother who was crying and saying that she wants to see the baby after the mother’s death.” Kisht added that the baby’s father was also killed.
Dr Fadi Al-Khrote, who was part of the team of medics who saved the baby, told Al-Jazeera the child was a “miracle” as the woman had been clinically dead for ten minutes before the operation finished. The “miracle” baby has been named Shayma. Shayma was rescued by doctors while Israel Defence Forces’ (IDF) ground invasion of Gaza continues to claim lives, with more than 1,030 Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed so far.
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