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Gaza Strip: Palestinian baby born after mother's death dies

Gaza Strip: Palestinian baby born after mother's death dies

A Palestinian baby who was born after her mother was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, has also died.

The premature baby girl was born in an emergency Caesarean operation after her mother was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday.

The 23-year old mother, Shayma al-Sheikh Qanan, was eight months pregnant but died in an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah.

Having survived the Israeli onslaught at first, the girl, named Shayma after her mother, also died after three days on Tuesday.

So far, at least 1,262 people have been killed and thousands of others injured in the Israeli regime's military attacks on the coastal sliver.

Sources: Metro, Press-TV