He was placed in an incubator and transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
Palestinian territories:
A hospital in Gaza said on Saturday it had rescued a baby boy from his mother’s womb after she died from injuries sustained in an Israeli attack.
Ola Adnan Harb al-Kurd, who was nine months pregnant, barely survived a heavy night of rocket attacks that killed more than 24 people, including six members of the same family, according to rescue services in the Hamas-held area.
But by the time Kurd reached Al-Awda Hospital, she was “almost dead”, according to surgeon Akram Hussein.
Doctors were unable to save the mother, but performed an ultrasound scan that detected the baby’s heartbeat.
They quickly performed a caesarean section “and extracted the fetus,” the surgeon told AFP.
The newborn’s condition was initially critical, but after receiving oxygen, medical care stabilized, said Raed al-Saudi, head of the hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology department.
He was placed in an incubator and transferred to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
Kurd was one of three women and a child killed by an Israeli missile fired at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a medical official at Al-Awda Hospital. Her husband was also injured in the attack on the family home.
Israel has not confirmed individual attacks, but a military statement said troops carried out “targeted attacks on terrorist infrastructure sites” in central Gaza.
Israel has stepped up its offensive in several parts of the territory, in line with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order to increase pressure on Hamas following Palestinian militants’ attacks on southern Israel on October 7.
One man was killed in a drone hit while cycling on a street near the southern town of Khan Yunis, the Palestinian Red Crescent said.
Airstrikes on two houses in Gaza City in the north left six dead each, according to civil defense and paramedics.
Israel’s military statement said that “forces have eliminated a number of terrorists in several encounters” and launched an operation in the Tal al-Sultan refugee camp near the southern city of Rafah.
The war in Gaza has made childbirth increasingly dangerous, with pregnant women facing not only almost daily strikes that hinder access to health care, but also widespread food insecurity, degrading sanitary conditions and water scarcity.
Humanitarian groups say the few hospitals that remain in operation are stretched to the limit.
Preterm deliveries and maternal complications, including eclampsia, hemorrhage and sepsis, have increased, Doctors Without Borders said this week.
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