Gaza City, Gaza Strip – May 7, 2025, was the day Amal Sobeih’s daughter was born. It was also the day her husband was killed.

Yahya Sobeih saw little Sana come into the world. At six in the morning, he took Amal to the hospital as she struggled through labour pains.

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At the time, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza was still raging, and military strikes across the enclave had not stopped.

But the couple were filled with excitement as they prepared to welcome their third child, and the first sister to their two sons, Baraa and Kenan, who were four and three at the time.

Amal explains that doctors told her she needed an emergency caesarean section after she arrived in the hospital, but aside from that,…