Baby pulled from rubble as Gaza devastated by strikes

Rescuers have pulled a 25-day-old baby girl alive from the rubble of her home in Gaza’s Khan Younis after an airstrike killed her parents and brother.

- MARIAM DAGGA & WAFAA SHURAFA

Amid the devastation of a collapsed apartment building, rescuers were met with the beacon of hope yesterday – the faint cries of a baby. Suddenly, cries of “God is great” erupted as a rescuer emerged from the wreckage, a tiny infant cradled in his arms.

The baby, wrapped in a blanket, was rushed to a waiting ambulance and checked by paramedics. The infant’s parents and brother perished in the overnight Israeli airstrike that levelled their home. “When we asked people, they said she is a month old and she has been under the rubble, since dawn,” said Hazen Attar, a civil defence first responder.

He described the moments leading up to the rescue: “She had been screaming and then falling silent from time to time until we were able to get her out a short while ago, and thank God she is safe.”