Posted on 04/26/2024 6:52:13 PM PDT by Morgana
Sabreen Alrouh Joudeh was born an orphan. And her life, however hopeful, has proved brief.
During a barrage of intense Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah this weekend, one blast hit the family home into which Sabreen would have been welcomed, according to local health officials, hospital staff and family members. The blast killed her mother, Sabreen Sakani — who was 30 weeks pregnant with her at the time — as well as her father, Shukri Joudeh, and her 3-year-old sister she never got to meet, Malak.
The family was declared dead at the city’s Kuwaiti Hospital on Saturday, but NBC News’ cameras captured the moment doctors were able to perform a posthumous cesarean section and rescue Sabreen from her mother’s lifeless body.
Limp and lifeless at first, the vernix-covered newborn weighing just over 3 pounds was taken in a golden fabric blanket and rushed to an upstairs room. There, doctors tried for more than two minutes to resuscitate her by pumping air into her mouth and tapping her chest. They were finally, somehow, successful.
From there, she was immediately rushed by ambulance through the night to an intensive care unit incubator at the nearby Emirati Hospital, audibly whimpering on arrival. It was there that her paternal grandmother and uncle paid her an emotional visit, accompanied by NBC News, on Monday.
“I don’t know if we should be happy that she came to life or sad,” said her uncle Rami Joudeh, 25, weighing what should have been the joy of Sabreen’s arrival with the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law, who were just 29 and 27 years old. “Our lives are messy.”
The newborn’s grandmother Alham Al-Kurdi, 55, wept as she reached into the incubator.
“You are my soul, my heart. You are my heart, baby,” she said, tears rolling over her freckled cheeks, her wrinkled hand caressing the infant’s tissue-paper skin as machines chirped around her. “You are my beloved one. God willing, God willing. She is inside my heart.”
t was difficult to get a clear view of Sabreen’s tiny, preterm form through the thick plastic of the incubator keeping her alive. As she was lying swaddled in tubes and wires, those lifelines provided oxygen to her underdeveloped lungs and monitored her fragile pulse. Beneath the technology keeping her alive — a rarity in Gaza where many hospitals have been destroyed by six months of war — her ribs continued to rise and fall.
Though a remarkable vignette, this family has been devastated like so many others in the enclave.
Do not say one damn thing about her death being good because she was a Palestinian. She was an innocent baby created in the image of God, just as all babies are.
Anyone who celebrates this baby's death is no better than the abortionists and pro choice people we in here on a daily basis condemn.
Sabreen Alrouh Joudeh was a miracle baby and proved once again how wrong abortion up to birth is. She came into this world at 30 weeks. Her first hours were rough but she beat the odds. Maybe one day we will have even better NICU life saving abilities that would help other "Baby Sabreens" and give them a better fighting chance.
Thank You Baby Sabreen, in your short life you gave the pro aborts another black eye just by surviving, living.
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
Does NBC offer essays like this on the innocent Israeli women who were raped, tortured then killed by the hamas animals?
Since when did leftist journos care about babies?
“Does NBC offer essays like this on the innocent Israeli women who were raped, tortured then killed by the hamas animals?”
Of course not.
And meanwhile the MSM is silent on the atrocities perpetrated on children by hamas on Oct 7.
Since when did ANY leftist care about babies except as far as they could use them to score political points?
The 19th Amendment was America’s suicide note.
No tears for the Israeli dead though?
This is a tragedy, one of many tragedies that happened after Hamas non-humans started this war. They are the real killers of that poor child and her mother, they could’ve saved them by releasing all hostages and stopping the war immediately.
Oh wait you mean the stories where hamas is with holding food and aid to the Palestinians? Yes I have seen those stories, not sure where but I've seen them. Hamas does it every freaking time but somehow those stores don't make it.
You know what else does not make it?
The time an Al Jaazera reporter was interviewing a Palestine man in the hospital just after this shit broke out. The Reporter cut the man off and you know why? The Palestine man said “We want Hamas out of here” YES that was said and when the reporter cut him off the man was like “come back here I'm not done! We want hamas gone!”
How about them apples?
The first mistake we make is believing the NBC and Hamas propaganda. I am doubtful the story is true. If it is, the death of an innocent child is tragic but war is hell and the people responsible are not the Israelis.
Who started hamas? Tell me who?
I know, do you?
Ron Paul knew who!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQHHm18J7I
There are no answers for that part of the world, without Jesus. Hate will last as long as it is nurtured and taught from generation to generation. It began with Abraham’s 2 sons.
It could end with knowing Jesus.. But most in that region have no interest in Jesus. They are satisfied to hate and destroy.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Jesus came for all..
Blame it on HAMAS. All they had to do was release hostages and unconditionally surrender. Until they have or are dead, they and their supporters can die, all die for all I care.
I’ve said that all along.
Killing them is not the answer. Leading them to Jesus is.
This baby was innocent. We could have taught her about Jesus. Now she knows Jesus but she could have in this world.
Everyone in the middle east, muslims and jews need Jesus that is the problem over there.
My deal with this baby is it not right to wish her dead. We are no better than our enemy if we do.
This is what happens when Arab combatants use their own families as human shields. Regrettable but better than the alternative - risking young Israeli lives to kill the man. The US population is about 35x Israel’s. 1500 Israeli dead is the equivalent of 53,000 American dead, almost the same number suffered in a decade of war in Vietnam. If 53,000 Americans had died in 6 months of combat during Vietnam, every North Vietnamese city would be a radioactive pile of ashes. In WW2, the US burned a section of Tokyo to the ground, killed 100,000 Japanese over 24 hours. Total US dead fighting Japan over 4 years? 100,000 GIs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
And everyone knows about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And yes, Japanese cities harbored infants and other small children.
At least they didn’t stick her in a microwave oven to finish her off.
Roe VS wade did not help America much eiter
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