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Gaza war: 13 Palestinians killed in air strikes as Israel-Hamas truce talks ‘make progress’
- The casualties follow a rare moment of hope, after a medical team recovered a live baby from a pregnant Palestinian mother killed in an air strike
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At least 13 people were killed in three Israeli air strikes that hit refugee camps in central Gaza overnight into Saturday, according to Palestinian health officials, as ceasefire talks in Cairo appear to make progress.
Among the dead in Nuseirat Refugee Camp and Bureij Refugee Camp were three children and one woman, according to Palestinian ambulance teams that transported the bodies to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. The 13 corpses were counted by journalists at the hospital.
The latest casualties follow a rare moment of hope in war ravaged Gaza, after a medical team recovered a live baby from a heavily pregnant Palestinian mother killed in an air strike that hit her home in Nuseirat late Thursday evening.
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Heavily pregnant Ola al-Kurd, 25, was killed along with six others in the blast, but emergency workers quickly rushed her to Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza in the hope of saving the unborn child. Hours later, doctors said that a baby boy had been delivered.
The still-unnamed newborn is stable but has suffered from a shortage of oxygen and has been placed in an incubator, said Dr. Khalil Dajran. The baby boy’s father was wounded in the same strike, but survived.
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The war in Gaza, which was sparked by Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel, has killed more than 38,900 Palestinians, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count. The war has created a humanitarian catastrophe in the coastal Gaza Strip, displaced most of its 2.3 million population, and triggered widespread hunger.
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