After mother killed in Israeli strike, doctors say unborn baby’s survival is a miracle
Yesterday Ola al-Kurd (a pregnant Palestinian woman) was killed as Israeli forces targeted a house in Nuseirat refugee camp.
She was transferred to al-Awda Hospital where doctors said it is a miracle that her baby is alive. The baby boy was in stable condition on Friday but had suffered oxygen shortages and was placed in an incubator at al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, Dr Khalil Dajran told the AP.
The mother, Ola al-Kurd, 25, had previously survived an Israeli air strike four months ago that killed her parents and some of her siblings. She was nine months pregnant when she was killed on Friday, along with six others, in an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Her husband, Anas Yassin, was wounded in the same strike and was being treated at the same hospital as his newborn son, AP reports.
Unfortunately, there is no name for this baby because there is no one to name him after he lost his mother, and his father is critically injured. The same type of incident happened a few months ago in al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and in Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.
The past couple of days have been deadly for the middle area of Gaza, especially Nuseirat where Israeli forces targeted dozens of houses. Since the early hours of the morning, civil defence teams have been trying to rescue people from under the rubble.
Smoke rises from a building hit by an Israeli strike in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday
In Al-Aqsa Hospital, Palestinians said their last goodbyes, prayed and held funerals for at least 20 Palestinians who have been killed in the past couple of hours.
In Deir el-Balah, we did not stop hearing endless explosions all night long and here today we have seen body after body.
Israeli quadcopter shoots and kills Palestinian in Rafah
An Israeli quadcopter has shot and killed a Palestinian in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to local media reports.
The death, which occurred in the Hashshashin area in Rafah’s west, is the latest following a series of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours, which have seen more than two dozen Palestinians killed.
Israeli artillery targeting central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that areas around the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza are under Israeli artillery attack.
Dozens of people were reported killed in Israeli attacks on residential buildings across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday morning.
Death toll rises from Israeli strike on home in Nuseirat
A Gaza civil defence rescue crew has confirmed that it has recovered five bodies from the rubble of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, local media reports.
Earlier, we reported that at least four people had been killed following an Israeli strike on the al-Sharihi family home in the early hours of this morning.
At least 27 people have been killed in a series of deadly Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours.
Israeli forces kill journalist in Jabalia along with his wife and children
We earlier reported on the Israeli attack that targeted the Abu Jasser family home in the al-Alami area of the Jabalia refugee camp.
Our colleagues on the ground now report that journalist Muhammad Jasser was killed in the attack in northern Gaza along with his wife and two children.
At least 2 people killed in Israeli bombing of house in Gaza City
At least two people have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house of the al-Sabbagh family in the az-Zarqa area, northern Gaza City, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
A number of others have also been injured, they said.
Our teams on the ground also reported that intense Israeli air and artillery bombardment targeted the ad-Dawa area, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Number of people killed in Israeli attacks rises to 38,919
The number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the start of the war has risen to at least 38,919, according to the latest update by the Health Ministry in the besieged and bombarded territory.
Another 89,622 have been wounded, with thousands also missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
