(AFP report).- A hospital in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that it had saved a baby from its mother’s womb after the woman died from her injuries following an Israeli bombardment.
Ola Adnan Harb al Kurd was nine months pregnant and was among more than 24 victims of the bombings early Saturday morning, according to rescue services.
The woman was seriously injured in the Nuseirat camp in central Palestine, according to an official at Al Awda hospital.
But when she arrived at the hospital she was “almost dead,” said surgeon Akram Hussein.
Doctors were unable to save the mother, but they performed an ultrasound which detected the baby’s heartbeat. They performed an emergency Caesarean section “and extracted the foetus,” the surgeon told AFP.
The newborn was initially in critical condition but was stabilized after receiving oxygen and medical care, said Raed al Saudi, head of the hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology department.
The baby was taken in an incubator to Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir el Balah, also in the centre of the Strip.
In addition to Kurd, Israeli airstrikes killed two women and a child in Nuseirat camp, according to a doctor at Al Awda hospital. Kurd’s husband was also wounded in the attack.
Israel has not confirmed any individual strikes, but a military statement said troops were “carrying out targeted strikes against terrorist infrastructure” in central Gaza.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza erupted on October 7, when Islamist commandos killed 1,195 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 in southern Israel, according to a count based on official Israeli data.
The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that 38,919 people have died in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war.
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2024-07-23 18:46:12
