Do you remember that baby from Al-Shifa Hospital’s premature babies in Gaza who lost his eye and his mom and arrived in Egypt alone to receive treatment?
Yes, it is him, and he is a cute little boy who was lucky to find his family after all.
Mostafa Qadoura in Gaza before evacuation and in Cairo after evacuation |
His name is Mostafa Qadoura , the son of Halima Abd Rabou.
Babies of Gaza: Mostafa, son of Halima has a family and is recovering amazingly and happily.
When Mostafa Qadoura was just a week old, an Israeli airstrike on his home in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya in October 2013 launched him and his crib into the air.
Shrapnel pierced his right eye, damaging it beyond repair. Baby Mostafa was later found in his crib, meters away from the ruins of his home.
The strike killed his 4-year-old brother, Ayes, and severely injured his 22-year-old mother, Halima.
Mostafa was rushed to Al-Shifa Hospital’s neonatal unit but faced further medical challenges when the hospital itself came under shelling. Meanwhile, Halima was at another hospital in northern Gaza, where doctors were forced to amputate her leg. She also suffered life-altering injuries to her neck, chest, and eyes.
After being discharged, Halima moved into a large family home in Jabaliya. But tragedy struck again. As her son was being evacuated across borders to safety, an Israeli airstrike killed Halima, her 6-year-old son, Bassam, and 50 other family members on November 22, 2023.
The fate of Mostafa’s father remains unknown. Officially listed as missing, it is unclear whether his body has been recovered.
For a time, the remaining members of Mostafa’s family believed he had also perished—until his uncle stumbled upon a local news report mentioning an orphaned baby he suspected was Mostafa.