RAFAH: A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in the Gaza city of Rafah, where 22 people, mostly kids, died overnight in intensified strikes, Palestinian health officials said. The dead, killed in hits on two houses, included 17 children from one family.
The baby, weighing 1.4 kg and delivered in an emergency C-section, was stable and improving gradually, said Mohammed Salama, a doctor caring for her.Her mother, Sabreen Al-Sakani, had been 30 weeks pregnant. The baby was placed in an incubator in a Rafah hospital. Sakani’s young daughter Malak, who was killed in the strike, had wanted to name her sister Rouh, meaning spirit in Arabic, said her uncle. Sakani’s husband was also killed.
The 17 children were killed in a strike on the second home, belonging to the Abdel Aal family, according to Palestinian health officials. Two women were also killed in that strike.
Asked about the casualties in Rafah, an Israeli military spokesperson said various militant targets were struck in Gaza, including military compounds, launch posts and armed people. Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.