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By Lucy Skoulding A baby has been born by an emergency C-section in Gaza seconds after her mother died when their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike. Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it. The family of Palestinians were trying to shelter from the war in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah. Sabreen’s father, her four-year-old sister and her mother were all killed in the attack. But then emergency responders learned that her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was 30 weeks pregnant. In a rush at the Kuwaiti hospital where the bodies were taken, medical workers performed an e…

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