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    Wrapped in the white burial shroud synonymous with Gaza’s colossal civilian death toll, Sabreen was placed into the dusty ground, the tiny hole matching her brief window in the world.

    NBC News has followed this weeklong story of loss, hope and then back again, capturing the moment of Sabreen’s birth and the doctors’ frantic efforts to save her.

    She didn’t have time to do anything,” said family cousin Ali Joudeh, 30, shouting toward the sky as he unwrapped Sabreen’s shroud to reveal her lifeless, doll-sized face.

    Israel’s military campaign has come under increased criticism internationally, with even its closest ally, the United States, urging it to do more to protect civilians in its pursuit of Hamas.

    As Israel intensified aerial attacks last weekend on Rafah, the southern city where most Palestinians have fled, one airstrike hit the home where Sabreen’s family was expecting her arrival into the world in less than two months.

    “Send greetings to your mother, father and sister, my love,” her grandmother Alham Al-Kurdi, 55, said through sobs as she held the slender parcel containing the newborn’s body before it was interred alongside her parents.


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