Baby saved from dying mother’s womb after Israeli airstrike named in her honor [Video]

A newborn baby who was still in the womb when her mother was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah was doing well Monday after being moved to a new hospital in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. The baby’s mother Sabreen, along with her father Shoukri and her three-year-old sister Malak, were all killed in the strike. The baby was named Sabreen Erooh by her aunt, which means “soul of Sabreen,” after her mother.

“We tried to rescue the patient,” Dr. Ahmad Fawzi, a doctor at a nearby hospital, told British broadcaster Sky News. “We realized that she was pregnant. We had to do an emergency cesarean to save the baby. Thanks to God, we managed to save the baby.”

Without a name at the time, the infant initially had a label put on her tiny arm that said: “The baby of the martyr Sabreen al Sakani.”