Another tragic incident has been reported from Rafah in the Gaza Strip where a Palestinian baby later named Sabreen Jouda was born mere seconds following her mother’s death during an Israeli air strike.
On Saturday around midnight, Sabreen’s house was struck by an air strike where her family was seeking safety from the ongoing genocide in the Rafah city of Gaza, the same as hundreds of other Palestinians. Sabreen’s whole family was martyred in the air strike including her father, her mother and her 4-year-old elder sister.
The emergency responders on the scene discovered that Sabreen’s mother identified as Sabreen al-Sakani was 7 months pregnant due to which the mother had to undergo an emergency C-section in the back of the ambulance on their way to the Kuwaiti Hospital where the family’s bodies were being taken.
Little Sabreen almost didn’t survive as well since she struggled to breathe. Her small body was laid down on a piece of carpet in the recovery position while one of the emergency responders pumped air into her tiny mouth and another patted her chest. With the quick thinking of the emergency responders who are risking their lives to save the people of Gaza, little Sabreen miraculously survived.
On Sunday, mere hours after the airstrike that killed her whole family, Sabreen’s tiny body lay inside an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Emirati hospital. The tag identifying her read, “the martyr Sabreen al-Sakani’s baby”.
Dr Mohammed Salameh, the head of the neonatal intensive care unit stated, “We can say there is some progress in her health condition, but the situation is still at risk.” He further added, “This child should have been in the mother’s womb at this time, but she was deprived of this right.”
Thankfully, Sabreen still has some of her surviving family left who will be taking care of her including her paternal grandmother who described her as “a memory of her father.”
According to the Health Ministry in Gaza, out of the 34,000 Palestinians that have been martyred in Gaza since the war started, two-thirds have been children and women.
The survivors of the air strikes buried the dead on Sunday. Children wrapped in bloody cloths were put in body bags and buried in the grounds as their families grieved and wept.
But the question that remains on everyone’s mind is how many Sabreen’s are there in Gaza right now whose stories go unheard and how many will there have to be to put a stop to the ongoing genocide?
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