Gaza’s death toll rises
At least 34,356 Palestinians have been killed and 77,368 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, its Health Ministry says. The ministry added that 51 people were killed and 75 injured in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Israeli snipers shoot Palestinians, kill one: PRCS
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its ambulance crews transferred the dead body of a Palestinian and a wounded person from Nuseirat following an Israeli attack. The organisation said on X the two Palestinians were targeted by Israeli snipers in the city of az-Zahra in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
In a video that the group posted, PRCS crew are seen taking a body from a car and putting it in the ambulance as people surround the vehicle.
‘We live in tents under rain, rockets, shelling and fear’
Amna Saleh, an 87-year-old Palestinian woman who was displaced from Jabalia in northern Gaza early in the war, says she still has hopes of returning to her war-wrecked neighbourhood even though her home there has been destroyed.
“We were displaced amid the shelling, where houses were destroyed above our heads and we lost our sons and youth,” Saleh said in comments carried by the Wafa news agency.
“We have been living for seven months in tents that lack the basic necessities of life under rain, rockets, shelling and fear,” she added.
Baby rescued from dead mother’s womb after Israeli attack dies
Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, a premature baby who was rescued from her dying mother’s womb after an Israeli air attack on Gaza, has died, according to a relative and a doctor.
The little girl was pulled out alive just moments after her pregnant mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was killed.
Sabreen’s home was hit by an Israeli air strike on Rafah on Saturday. She has now been buried next to her mother.
Baby Sabreen al-Rouh ‘joined her family as a martyr’
The doctor who was caring for little Sabreen al-Rouh says she suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system. “I and other doctors tried to save her, but she died. For me personally, it was a very difficult and painful day,” Mohammad Salama, head of the emergency neo-natal unit at Emirati Hospital, told Reuters by phone.
“She was born while her respiratory system wasn’t mature, and her immune system was very weak and that is what led to her death. She joined her family as a martyr,” Salama said.
“[Her] grandmother urged me and the doctors to take care of her because she would be someone that would keep the memory of her mother, father and sister alive, but it was God’s will that she died,” Salama added.
The mother, who was 30-weeks pregnant, died of her wounds but doctors were able to save the baby, delivering her by Caesarean section.
‘Rouh is gone, my brother, his wife and daughter are gone’
Sabreen al-Rouh’s uncle, Rami al-Sheikh Jouda, says he visited the hospital every day to check on the baby’s health. Doctors told him she had a respiratory problem but he did not think it was bad until he got a call from the hospital telling him the baby had died.
“Rouh is gone, my brother, his wife and daughter are gone, his brother-in-law and the house that used to bring us together are gone,” he told Reuters.
“We are left with no memories of my brother, his daughter, or his wife. Everything was gone, even their pictures, their mobile phones, we couldn’t find them,” the uncle said.
Just one of tens of thousands of tragic stories from Gaza.
