The baby boy, though in stable condition, experienced oxygen shortages and was placed in an incubator at Al Awda Hospital in Northern Gaza.
Al Awda Hospital in Northern Gaza has recently received an influx of injured patients from Gaza City. / Photo: AFP
An Israeli airstrike has killed a pregnant woman in Gaza but her baby miraculously survived after the mother’s body was rushed to a hospital delivery room, medical officials said. The baby boy was in stable condition but had suffered oxygen shortages and was placed in an incubator at Al Awda Hospital in Northern Gaza, said Dr Khalil Dajran.
The mother, Ola el Kurd, 25, had previously survived an Israeli airstrike four months ago that killed her parents and some of her siblings. She was nine months pregnant at the time of her death.Her husband, Anas Yassin, was wounded in the same strike and was being treated at the hospital same hospital as his son, his first child. The boy yet to be given a name.
Israel ongoing intense air, land, and sea bombardments on Gaza has killed upwards of 38,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women, wounding over 89,000 and displacing the majority of the 2.3 million residents in the tiny coastal enclave.
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