A baby rescued from her dying mother`s womb caused by an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC reported.
Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday.
Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a hand pump to push air into her lungs.
However she died on Thursday and has been buried next to her mother after whom she was named.
Baby Sabreen was among 16 children killed in two air strikes in Rafah last weekend. All were killed in a bombardment targeting the housing complex where they lived.
While the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed they were targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure.
Sabreen`s mother, also called Sabreen, was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when the Israeli air strike on the al-Sakani family home took place just before midnight on Saturday as she, her husband Shukri and their three-year-old daughter Malak were asleep.
She suffered extensive injuries and her husband and Malak were killed, but the baby was still alive in her mother`s womb when rescue workers reached the site.
They rushed Sabreen to hospital, where doctors performed an emergency Caesarean section to deliver the child.
It appeared that baby Sabreen had stabilised and she was subsequently placed in an incubator. At the time doctors described her condition as critical.
A total of 13,430 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, the Media Office in Gaza said Monday.
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