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Gaza baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies

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A premature baby girl who was saved from the womb after her mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has also died.

Sabreen Jouda died in a hospital in the southern city of Rafah on Thursday after surviving five days in an incubator in a neonatal intensive care unit, her uncle told the Associated Press. Her father and her four-year-old sister were also killed in the airstrike that claimed the life of her mother shortly before midnight on Saturday.

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First responders transported the family’s bodies to a hospital where medical workers performed a posthumous cesarean section on Sabreen’s mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, who was 30 weeks pregnant at the time she was killed. The baby was then rushed to another hospital, where doctors fought to keep her alive.

Rami al-Sheikh, Sabreen’s uncle, told the AP that his niece had been buried next to her father on Thursday. “We were very attached to this baby,” he said. “God had taken something from us but he gave us something in return,” he added, referring to Sabreen’s survival after the death of his family.

“But (now) he has taken them all,” al-Sheikh said. “My brother’s family is completely annihilated. He has been erased from the civil registry. There is no trace of him left.”

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