Doctors saved Hamza Al-Rubai by performing an emergency C-section on his dead mother on Sept. 4 after an Israeli airstrike hit the parents' shelter outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The boy's grandmother, Madalla Al-Rubai, says his mother was a week from her due date when she and her husband were killed. (Mohamed El Saife/CBC - image credit)

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 moth

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