Baby rescued from under rubble in Gaza after Israel airstrike

Civil right teams conduct search and rescue operations after Israel’s attacks, which killed several people including the wife and child of journalist Tamim Abu Ma’mar, in Khan Yunis, Gaza on August 09, 2024 [Doaa Albaz – Anadolu Agency]

Civil defence teams have recovered a Palestinian baby from under the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports.

The strike flattened the house Sunday evening, with several people left trapped under the debris, according to an Anadolu reporter.

Hours after the attack, civil defence teams managed to pull out a baby from under the rubble, to the cheers of the gathering residents.

Israel has continued its deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since a 7 October, 2023 Hamas attack despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire.

Nearly 40,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 92,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Over ten months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.

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