Hospital staff in Gaza report that they have saved a small boy from his mother's womb after she died from injuries in an Israeli attack.
The woman, in her ninth month of pregnancy, barely survived a night of attacks that, according to Hamas-controlled health authorities, killed at least 24 people.
But at the hospital, she was beyond rescue, says surgeon Akram Hussein to the AFP news agency.
However, an ultrasound showed that the fetus's heart was still beating. With the help of a cesarean section, the doctors managed to deliver the baby, whose critical condition could be stabilized after care.
The boy was placed in an incubator and has been transferred to another hospital in Deir el-Balah.
The mother was one of three women and a child who died in an Israeli robot attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, according to a representative of the al-Awda hospital. The woman's husband is said to have been injured in the attack.
Israel has not confirmed the specific attack, but the military says in a general statement that it is "carrying out targeted operations against terrorist infrastructure" in central Gaza.
