Gaza Babies Return Home After War's Ordeal

0:00It's March 31st. This is Canada News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. More than two years into the war in Gaza, a group of premature babies evacuated from Shifa hospitals in the O'Natal Unit has finally made it back home. Eleven toddlers, including Samurai Lulu's daughter Kinda, reunited with their families this week after being airlifted to Egypt in November 20, 23, when power cuts shut down their incubators. Back then, blackouts hit the hospital hard during the early days of fighting, leaving doctors to wrap the tiny primis and blankets just to keep them alive. Out of 50 newborns in care, 31 made it through that first month for evacuation, but three died before they left, and four more passed away. In Egypt, parents like Sondu's outcurd feared the worst. Thinking her daughter Bessanne had died, only to hold her again at Nasser Hospital in Khan Unis. After dad, Jabra Bader, got his son Ibrahim Beck, but without his wife, who succumbed to

1:01illness after hospitals collapsed. These reunions happened through the partially reopened Rafa Crossing, with help from UNICEF allowing the kids and seven caregivers to return amid. Limited border access. Meanwhile, Gaza's health system still battles fuel shortages and blackouts, even as some facilities limp back online. It's a moment of joy laced with pain in a strip, scarred by over 72,000 deaths, mass displacement, and ruins everywhere. These families. Hope their little ones face a brighter path ahead, free for more tragedy.