Sister of baby saved after mother’s killing wanted to name her Rouh
More on the baby girl who was delivered from the womb of Sabreen Al-Sakani, the Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza along with her husband and young daughter.
Sakani’s daughter Malak had wanted to name her new sister Rouh, meaning “spirit” in Arabic, her uncle Rami Al-Sheikh told the Reuters news agency.
“What’s their fault? The whole family wiped out from the civil registry. And the only survivor is this small baby girl. Her sister Malak wanted to name her Rouh. And now Malak is gone. Only Rouh is left,” he said.
“The little girl Malak was happy that her sister was coming to the world,” he added.
Israelis block road in front of Gaza aid trucks
The demonstrators, from the Order 9 movement, gathered at night at southern Israel’s Dimona Junction, where they blocked the road after they received news that aid trucks were headed from Jordan to Gaza.
Israeli activists have repeatedly gathered in the past few months to try to stop aid from reaching Palestinians in Gaza, where civilians are struggling to survive amid severe food shortages.
‘Constant fear’ in West Bank amid Israeli settler violence
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said Israeli settler violence is contributing to a “state of constant fear” in the occupied West Bank.
“The situation in the West Bank is worsening by the day including in Palestine refugee camps”, many of which are operated by UNRWA, he said in a post on X. “It is time to end the occupation and address the longest lasting unresolved conflict through political means and a genuine commitment to peace.”
Lazzarini’s comments came after the Palestinian Health Ministry said 14 people were killed in an Israeli raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s Tulkarem on the weekend.
‘Pure revenge’: Residents of Nur Shams condemn Israeli raid, destruction
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are used to Israeli forces destroying infrastructure but they say the scale of damage during the recent raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp – with homes demolished, roads dug up and power lines cut – is something they’ve never seen before.
“Even during the 1960s, the roads never looked like this,” said Mahmoud Khalifeh, an elderly resident of the camp. “They [Israeli forces] want to take us decades back.”
Munir Abdel Raheem, another resident, called the destruction “pure revenge”. “It is our enemy and has been damaging our lives since 1948. I’m now 54 years old and have only been seeing the ugliness and torture of the Israeli occupation since I was a child.”
In addition to destroying infrastructure, Israeli forces also killed 14 Palestinians during the three-day raid on Nur Shams.
