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Elissa Nadworny

Giving birth amid Gaza's devastation is traumatic, but babies continue to be born

This newborn at Gaza's Nasser Hospital was delivered after their mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Oct. 24. The doctor said the baby is now in stable condition. (Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images)

KAHN YUNIS, Gaza — Raneem Hejazi was eight months pregnant, sleeping in an aunt's apartment with her husband, mother-in-law and other members of her extended family, when the building was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Seven members of the family were killed.

Hejazi's arm was crushed and her legs were broken and badly burned, but she was alive. She told her husband, Asad, to leave her to die. But somehow they pulled her out from the rubble. An ambulance rushed her to the Nasser Hospital in the city of Kahn Yunis, in southern Gaza.

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