A baby born in the womb of a Palestinian mother who died in an Israeli airstrike eventually died. She is only four days old.
According to Middle Eastern media such as Al Jazeera, baby Sabreen Alou, who was born by cesarean section to a mother who was seriously injured in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip, where the Islamic militant group Hamas is based, died on the 25th. The mother, Sabrine Alsakhani, who was a refugee, died shortly after giving birth.
Alu, who was born after 30 weeks of pregnancy, weighed 1.4 kg at birth and was in danger, but was able to survive thanks to emergency medical treatment. An official from Rafah Emirate Hospital, who was caring for Alu in the neonatal intensive care unit, said, “We tried to save the baby, but he eventually died. “It was a very painful day,” he said. “The baby was born with an immature respiratory system and a very weak immune system.”
The Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry announced on the 21st that an Israeli airstrike in Rafah hit two houses and killed 19 people, including al-Sakhani’s husband and four-year-old daughter. Al Jazeera reported, “This baby (Alu) is one of the 14,000 children who died in the Israeli military’s airstrikes on Gaza since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7 last year.”
Meanwhile, there are observations that the Israeli military’s operation to enter Rafah, which the international community was concerned about, has entered the countdown. The Israeli military issued a statement on the 25th and announced that it had withdrawn its main unit, the Nahal Infantry Brigade, stationed in the Gaza Strip in preparation for Operation Rafah. There were also local media reports that Israel recently built a large tent camp near Rafah to evacuate refugees, and that Israeli military leaders gathered in Egypt, adjacent to Rafah, to discuss the issue of the Rafah attack.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also recently said that the operation of its troops to enter Rafah is “being promoted.” The specific schedule was not disclosed. An Israeli Defense Ministry official said: “The troops can be put into operation immediately and are only waiting for Netanyahu’s approval.”
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