This little premature man was born on October 21, 2023 in Gaza, on the day of the death of her mother, his sister and her brother, killed in an Israeli bombardment.
Her name is Mecca and was born from a post-mortem cesarean at the Abu Youssef Al-Najjar hospital in Gaza a few hours after her family was decimated in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023.
Only his father, Ayman Abou Chamalah, a 34 -year -old Palestinian, survived. At the hospital, he begs the doctor to give birth to his wife, already dead. Doctors achieve it but little Mecca, having been deprived of oxygen between the moment of the death of her mother and his birth risks having consequences for life.
“The baby was in a very serious condition when arriving here and she was immediately placed under breathing. But the first diagnosis is not good because the brain was deprived of oxygen between the moment of the death of the mother and birth, “the hospital chief of the hospital, Mohammad Salameh, told AFP. “It is very likely that it suffers from permanent consequences,” he adds.
Ironically, on October 21, the day of the death of his brother Adam, 3, and his older sister Cham were born the same day at six years apart, October 21. They were killed on Saturday, the day of their birthday, with their mother.
