The story of Sabreen, born in Gaza when her mother had already died

Sabreen is a newborn baby and is already alone in the world. She was born in Gaza this April, seconds after her mother's death. The story is told by the Associated Press and was reported by the BBC, it happened on the night between Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st April. Mother and daughter were in Rafah: their family home was hit by an Israeli bombing. The girl's father, her four-year-old sister and her mother died. However, the doctors realized that the woman, who bore the same name then given to the little girl, was 30 weeks pregnant. They performed an emergency caesarean section at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah.

The little girl was born like this, just over seven months old. Struggle to breathe. Health workers pumped air from her mouth and gave a form of massage to her chest. They admitted her to the intensive care unit: she is in an incubator. «We can say that there is some progress in her condition, but the situation is still at risk. This little girl should have been in her mother's womb at this time, but she was deprived of this right» explained Dr. Mohammad Salameh, head of the intensive care unit.

Her paternal grandmother will take care of her and says: «She is my love, my soul. It is a memory of his father, my son. I'll take care of her». In the hospital they called the little girl, “the little girl of the martyr Sabreen”, this is written on a piece of paper that identifies her.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least two-thirds of the more than 34,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since the war began have been children and women. The other Israeli airstrike in Rafah during the same night killed 17 children and two women.