November 20, 2023
Mother of one of 28 Gaza babies moved to Egypt recounts her ordeal
CAIRO/GAZA: Born prematurely in Gaza shortly before war broke out, the baby girl was treated at Al Shifa Hospital as she gradually collapsed, separated from her displaced family and then evacuated to Egypt on Monday with her mother and 27 other Palestinian newborns. Lobna al-Saik, the baby’s mother, was one of a handful of parents accompanying some of the 28 infants as they were taken in an ambulance convoy from a hospital in southern Gaza through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt for treatment . “They are innocent children, premature babies,” an exhausted al-Sheikh said in a video interview provided


