"Out of the rubble": a 3-month-old baby survives an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed 10 family members

Sylvie Claire / August 14, 2024

"There is only one survivor from the family, a baby. The little girl, named Rim, is three months old," he added, giving the names of the two parents killed as well as their five sons and three daughters killed.

Swaddled in a black bodysuit, his face streaked with splinters, the infant caused quite a stir in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, now a meeting place for grieving families searching for the missing, or dropping off the injured or remains.

"This little girl was pulled out of the rubble, her whole family is dead, even her mother, who's going to breastfeed her?" asks Ibrahim Barbakh, a Khan Younès resident, who is holding the little girl in his arms.

Rescue services, witnesses and medical sources are again reporting Israeli air strikes and artillery fire in various parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, several of them deadly.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not comment on the strike.

The conflict in the Gaza Strip was reignited by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Hamas movement on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.

After the attack, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, and its offensive has claimed at least 39,929 lives, according to data from the Gaza government's Ministry of Health.

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"Out of the rubble": a 3-month-old baby survives an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed 10 family members

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