The miracle baby who was born via an emergency caesarian section after her mother was killed in Gaza, died on Thursday.
Constant blackouts and electricity shortages had affected her incubator in the intensive care unit said doctors at the hospital where she was being treated, reports al-Arabiya News.
Head of the maternity ward at Nasser hospital in Gaza, Dr Abdel Karem al-Bawab told Agence France-Press Thursday that the ongoing electricity shortages played a role because “her oxygen tubes did not work properly and we had to resuscitate her more than once manually.”
On Friday, the prematurely delivered baby was born by an emergency caesarean section in the central area of Gaza. The doctors managed to deliver the baby after her mother died by an Israeli tank shell that landed near the family home.
The mother Shayma al-Sheikh Qanan was 23 years of age and eight months pregnant when she died.
The “miracle baby” Shayma, named after her dead mother, had to be connected to a respirator at the maternity ward in Khan Yunis hospital, south of Gaza, due to complications during delivery.
The baby suffered oxygen deficiency in the womb after her mother’s heart stopped.
Doctors had told AFP that the baby’s vitals were stable but she would have had to stay connected to the respirator for another three more weeks.
Six days after her birth, she died in the intensive care unit which had suffered constant electricity shortages due to Israeli bombs that hit the only power station in Gaza.
Shayma has been buried next to her mother.
As Gaza’s death toll increases with over 1,400 Palestinians killed, meanwhile Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel with a death toll of more than 60.