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Gaza's youngest survivors: Saving the Al-Shifa babies
NBC News documentary on the premature babies of Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital — evacuated after Israeli forces raided the facility in November 2023 — and their fight to survive.
As Israel’s military pushed further into Gaza in November 2023, more than three dozen premature babies at Al-Shifa hospital needed around-the-clock care. If they weren’t evacuated quickly, death was all but certain.
This NBC News documentary follows their evacuation — through negotiations over the raid’s aftermath, their journey out of Gaza to Cairo, and the families searching for them. Erin McLaughlin reported the story for NBC News.
Why it mattered
A 14-minute documentary following the evacuation of more than three dozen premature babies from Al-Shifa hospital during the Israeli military raid, and their uncertain journey to Egypt.
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