Posted on 04/26/2024 6:52:13 PM PDT by Morgana
Sabreen Alrouh Joudeh was born an orphan. And her life, however hopeful, has proved brief.
During a barrage of intense Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah this weekend, one blast hit the family home into which Sabreen would have been welcomed, according to local health officials, hospital staff and family members. The blast killed her mother, Sabreen Sakani — who was 30 weeks pregnant with her at the time — as well as her father, Shukri Joudeh, and her 3-year-old sister she never got to meet, Malak.
The family was declared dead at the city’s Kuwaiti Hospital on Saturday, but NBC News’ cameras captured the moment doctors were able to perform a posthumous cesarean section and rescue Sabreen from her mother’s lifeless body.
Limp and lifeless at first, the vernix-covered newborn weighing just over 3 pounds was taken in a golden fabric blanket and rushed to an upstairs room. There, doctors tried for more than two minutes to resuscitate her by pumping air into her mouth and tapping her chest. They were finally, somehow, successful.
From there, she was immediately rushed by ambulance through the night to an intensive care unit incubator at the nearby Emirati Hospital, audibly whimpering on arrival. It was there that her paternal grandmother and uncle paid her an emotional visit, accompanied by NBC News, on Monday.
“I don’t know if we should be happy that she came to life or sad,” said her uncle Rami Joudeh, 25, weighing what should have been the joy of Sabreen’s arrival with the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law, who were just 29 and 27 years old. “Our lives are messy.”
The newborn’s grandmother Alham Al-Kurdi, 55, wept as she reached into the incubator.
“You are my soul, my heart. You are my heart, baby,” she said, tears rolling over her freckled cheeks, her wrinkled hand caressing the infant’s tissue-paper skin as machines chirped around her. “You are my beloved one. God willing, God willing. She is inside my heart.”
t was difficult to get a clear view of Sabreen’s tiny, preterm form through the thick plastic of the incubator keeping her alive. As she was lying swaddled in tubes and wires, those lifelines provided oxygen to her underdeveloped lungs and monitored her fragile pulse. Beneath the technology keeping her alive — a rarity in Gaza where many hospitals have been destroyed by six months of war — her ribs continued to rise and fall.
Though a remarkable vignette, this family has been devastated like so many others in the enclave.
“I complain about leftist Jewish influence and debate the why as much as any poster here but I know from a lifetime of Jewish immersion that the Jews I’ve known have little to no chosen chauvinism”
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My friends and I never spoke about being chosen during my childhood/ But I did not grow up that religious. The religious Jews talk about it, but not in terms of hating non-Jews. It is complicated in ways that I am not familiar with. Jews are “chosen” to have a Covenant with God. That non Jews do not have. This Covenant involves the men obeying 613 laws. The women have a different deal.
The 613 Commandments (Mitzvot) -—— You can see what they are right here—>>>
https://www.jewfaq.org/613_commandments
If Jews thought non-Jews are inferior. Then how come they marry them so often? Perhaps the non-Jew marries a Jewish man to convert and become Chosen too...Hahahha... Hey, let’s spread that good thing called Choseness around a bit. Why should only Jews get it via their birth? _____ And “Us non-Jews and Christians got gypped?”
Mixed marriages — When I hear that a Hollywood actor is Jewish, I get curious. It is amazing how many are only half Jewish. Paul Newman for example. “Paul’s mother was a practitioner of Christian Science.”
Just about all American Indian tribes I read about, called themselves “The People”. They considered other tribes inferior. So “Choseness” has been practiced all through history.
The Cherokee considered themselves the Real People
Maybe since they were Iroquoian a long way from original home?
You know this about the American Indians before the white man ever arrived. Tribes were always making wars on each other. But the idea that these wars were over the best hunting grounds, the best natural resources, access to water, is a myth.
Most wars were agitated for by the young braves. So that they could gain more honor and status (more sex partners) by being a brave, fearless and superior warrior/ And to capture the enemy tribes women to make them into sex-slaves, concubines, wives and baby factories. The tribe with the most people wins. The most male warriors will win.
This was their take on demographics.
You mean it wasn’t like in “Dances with Wolves?”
These Stone Age clowns were the exact opposite of Dances with Wolves. No Indians in North and South America invented the wheel. There were no wheels anywhere. The most creative they got was to drag stuff from point A to point B, instead of carry it.
When they got horses from the whites. The Plains Indians used them to drag their Teepees and household items.
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