Gaza /PNN/

Medical sources at Naser Hospital in Gaza said they managed to save the life of a newborn by performing an emergency cesarean section after his months-old-pregnant mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the city of Khan Yunis, in the northern Strip earlier today.

Doctor Asa’d a;-Nawajha, from the care department in the Naser hospital, said: “We are facing a tragic humanitarian story that is being repeated in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli bombing.”

The doctor said that the pregnant mother, who was identified as Raneem Hijazi, was brought to the Naser hospital in the morning after being killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of al-‘Abadleh family in Khan Yunis.

Doctors immediately performed an emergency cesarean birth and managed to save the life of the baby. The baby was placed in an incubator at the said Hospital and is reported in stable condition.

The mother, Raneem, was one of the nearly one million displaced people who were forced to flee their homes toward the southern part of the Strip.

A report issued by the Ministry of Health said that at least 130 premature babies who depend on incubators face the risk of death, due to scarcity of resources and lack of electricity, and about 50,000 pregnant women face challenges in accessing health care as a result of attacks on health facilities and workers.