12/20/2023

Israeli Airstrike Kills 17-day-old Palestinian Girl and Her Brother

The child was killed in an overnight strike in Rafa

She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily. Her family named her al-Amira Aisha, "Princess Aisha." She didn't complete her third week before she died, killed in an Israeli airstrike that crushed her family home Tuesday.

Her extended family was asleep when the strike leveled their apartment building in Rafah before dawn, said Suzan Zoarab, the infant's grandmother and survivor of the blast. Hospital officials said 27 people were killed, among them Amira and her 2-year old brother, Ahmed.

"Just 2 weeks old. Her name had not even been registered," Suzan said, her voice quivering as she spoke from the side of her son's hospital bed, who was also injured in the blast.

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