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She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily. Her family named her al-Amira Aisha — “Princess Aisha.” She didn’t complete her third week of life before she died, killed in an Israeli airstrike that crushed her family home Tuesday. Her extended family was asleep when the strike leveled their apartment building in Rafah before dawn, said Suzan Zoarab, the infant’s grandmother and survivor of the blast. Hospital officials said 27 people were killed , among them Amira and her 2-year old brother, Ahmed. “Just 2 weeks old. Her name ha…

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