Doctor places body of an unborn child with its mother who died in Gaza

It was supposed to be a scene of joy - a mother reaching out to her crying newborn daughter and cradling her to her chest after months of feeling her little kicks.

But instead, the hospital room was silent as the doctor carefully placed the unborn baby, no bigger than his palms, onto her mother's unmoving body.

This little baby, posthumously named as Fatimah - meaning 'shining one' in Arabic -, was killed alongside her heavily pregnant mother and her two sisters in an airstrike in the city of Rafah, on Gaza's border with , Palestinian doctors said.

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