A premature baby who was rescued from his mother's womb shortly after a woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike has died.
Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda, named after her mother, died Thursday in a hospital in Gaza after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, according to her uncle Ramí al-Sheikh.
The home of the Sabreen al-Rouh family in the southern Gaza city of Rafah was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight on Saturday. Sabreen al-Rouh's parents and her 4-year-old sister were killed.
First responders took the bodies to a nearby hospital, where medics performed an emergency C-section on the mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, who was 30 weeks pregnant. The infant was kept in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at another hospital until he died five days later.
Rami al-Sheikh said Sabreen al-Rouh was buried next to her father on Thursday.
More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed during the war between Israel and Hamas, according to local health officials, who say about two-thirds of the dead were women and children.
Israel has declared war on Hamas and launched a massive air and ground offensive in Gaza in response to the militants' deadly October 7 attack on southern Israel. Gunmen killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took another 250 hostage.
More than half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents have sought refuge in Rafah, where Israel is carrying out airstrikes almost daily as it prepares for a possible offensive in the city.
