Middle East: Israel’s attack on four fronts / Video from the Star’s main newscast (04/21/24)
A baby girl was born by caesarean section after her mother was killed along with her husband and daughter in an Israeli raid in Rafah, Gaza Strip. A total of 19 people died overnight in intensified attacks on this town in the southern part of the enclave, Palestinian doctors said.
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The 19 people, among them 13 children of one familywere killed by Israeli strike against two housesthe same sources added.
The infant, weighing 1.4 kg and was born with cesareanLocated at stable situation and his health is gradually improving, explained Mohamed Salama, the doctor who takes care of him.
Her mother, Sabrin al-Shakani, was 30 weeks pregnant when killed.
The infant is positioned in an incubator in a Rafa hospitalwith the phrase “martyr Sabrin al-Shakani’s baby” written in tape across his chest.
The baby born orphan
Malak, Sakani’s young daughter who was killed in the Israeli attackhe wanted to name her sister Ruhmeans “spirit” in Arabicher uncle Rami al-Sheikh said.
The infant will remain in the hospital for three to four weeks, Salama clarified. “Then we will see where this child goes, to the family, aunt, uncle or grandparents. This is the greatest tragedy: even if this child survives, he was born an orphan,” he explained.
Thirteen children and two women were killed by the blow to the second housewhich belonged to the Abdel Aal family, according to Palestinian officials.
When asked about the casualties in Rafah, an Israeli army spokesman said that various military targets were hit in Gaza, including military infrastructure, rocket launchers and gunmen.
“Did you see any men among the dead?” asked Saqr Abdel Aal, a Palestinian whose family is among the dead, grieving over the body of a child wrapped in a white shroud.
“They are all women and children,” he added.
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Mohammadal Behairi said his daughter and granddaughter were still under the debris. “We have a feeling of sadness, depression, we have nothing left in life to cry, what else to feel? When you lose your children, when you lose the ones you love the most, how do you feel?” he said.
Mass grave
Palestinian health authorities have announced that more than 34,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip after the start of Israeli operations there. The war broke out on October 7 after an unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel that claimed the lives of around 1,200 people.
Moreover, yesterday the Hamas Health Ministry pointed out that 48 Palestinians were killed and another 79 wounded in Gaza from the Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours.
For their part, the Palestinian authorities announced that 60 bodies were recovered from mass grave in the Nasser Hospital city’s Han Yunis, weeks after Israeli forces withdrew from it. With these dead, the number of bodies found in the hospital yard since April 12 increases to 210.
According to the same source, an estimated 2,000 people are still missing in the rubble in Khan Younis as are another 1,000 in the central Gaza Stripwith their bodies unable to be retrieved from the wreckage as no heavy machinery.
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