After their three children were killed in an Israeli strike on their home in Gaza City last year, Diana and Omar Al-Rubai were just days away from the expected arrival of their baby when they were killed in an airstrike last week.

Medical teams rushed to save Diana. But after she died in hospital shortly after the strike, doctors performed an emergency C-section, said a pediatrician involved in the newborn's care, removing the boy from his mother's womb a week before his due date.

"The doctors immediately rescued the baby and got him out," Madalla Al-Rubai said as she stood in the hospital on Friday, holding her orphaned newborn grandson. "We're very disheartened over the loss of [my] son, and daughter-in-law, but this is what God has written for us."

'Counting down the days'

Al-Rubai

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