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Baby Hamza orphaned before he was born due to Israeli attacks on Gaza

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SHOTLIST: GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE (SEP. 5, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIORS OF AL-HELOU HOSPITAL (TWO SHOTS) 2. ENTRANCE OF ICU (TWO SHOTS) 3. VARIOUS OF NEWBORN BABIES IN ICU 4. VARIOUS OF BABY HAMZA AL-RUBAI LYING IN CRIP IN EMERGENCY ROOM 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) PEDIATRICIAN AND NEONATOLOGIST ZIYAD SEYYID AL-MISRI SAYING: “We received a call that a mother had been seriously injured and needed urgent surgery to save her and her unborn baby. The mother died during surgery, but we saved the baby. The baby suffered from respiratory distress syndrome caused by the mother's cardiac arrest, but with the oxygen support we provided, his condition is now stable. We have saved babies this way before. This is not the first time. It is a situation we often encounter when pregnant women are attacked in their final months.” 6. VARIOUS OF BABY AL-RUBAI’S GRANDMOTHER CARING HIM 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) BABY'S PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, MUDELLELE AL-RUBAI SAYING: “We lost my son Omar and my daughter-in-law, who was in the final weeks of her pregnancy, in an attack carried out by Israel, and we were devastated. We named our grandson Hamza because that was what my son Omer wanted. Every day he would ask his wife, 'When will he be born? When will we see our son grow up?' He was counting down the days and hours until the birth. They had prepared everything. But he didn't get to see his son's birth. Hamza was the only survivor from the family." “In Israel's attacks, which have been going on for two years, I lost two sons, their wives, and six grandchildren. We want the war to end and to live safely with our children as we did before. “What did this child's wrong? Why was he left without a mother and father? He came into this world but never saw his mother or father. His father is gone, his mother is gone, his three siblings are gone. Hamza is also an orphan.” “Hamza's aunts will take care of him even as they grow older. God willing, may Allah grant us health and well-being so that we can raise him like his father and uncles.” GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE - SEP. 5: A newborn baby has become orphaned due to the Israel’s genocidal attacks, that killed his nine-month pregnant mother and father in an airstrike on their tent in the Gaza Strip. Hamza Al-Rubai, was surgically removed from his deceased mother's womb, that he was the sole survivor of the airstrike on the tent near Shifa Hospital on Thursday. Hamza's family was attacked in their home a year ago where the mother (Deyana) and father (Omar al-Rubai) survived, but their three children, aged five, eight and 10, were killed. The family then began living in a tent where a year later, the couple was killed. Hamza, who was successfully delivered from his mother's womb via surgery and left without a family, has been receiving treatment at El-Helou Hospital. Hamza’s grieving grandmother Mudellele Al-Rubai asked “What did this child's wrong? Why was he left without a mother and father? He came into this world but never saw his mother or father. His father is gone, his mother is gone, his three siblings are gone. Hamza is also an orphan.” According to Al-Rubai Hamza's aunts will take care of him even as they grow older. The Israeli genocide in Gaza entered day 700 on Friday, with Israel having killed at least 64,300 Palestinians. The military campaign has devastated the enclave, which is facing famine. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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