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Giving birth in a shelter in Israel

Auteur: AFP

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Accoucher dans un abri en Israël

On a wall of the hospital shelter in Haifa, northern Israel, a television screen plays a statement by Benjamin Netanyahu and images of Iranian missiles in the background. Focused on their task, the team of doctors and midwives is delivering Sarah Bird's third child.

It's a little girl, born by cesarean section. "She's beautiful!" exclaims a midwife, handing her to her mother for a first kiss. "She is!" replies Sarah, 38, with a radiant smile.

Yitzhak, her husband, who looked anxious throughout the delivery, finally relaxed and explained that the couple would wait a week to name the baby.

Sarah and Yitzhak were welcomed a few hours earlier by the director of the obstetrics unit at Mount Carmel Medical Center, Reuven Kedar.

They were taken to the hospital's shelter, carved into the mountain overlooking Haifa, on which the hospital is located. On average, ten babies are born there every day, according to Clalit, the country's main healthcare provider and manager of the hospital.

In total, 370 newborns have been born there since the start of the war, which began on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, which retaliated by firing towards Israel.

Certainly, on this Thursday, April 9, a fragile ceasefire was in effect the day before between the United States and Iran, and no Iranian missile had been fired at Israel.

But in Haifa, still reeling from Sunday's attack on a building that killed four people, the sirens continue to sound. The shelling by the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, an ally of Tehran, has not ceased.

Israel considers that Lebanon is not covered by the truce and the day before carried out deadly bombings on its neighbor which killed more than 300 people.

In total, more than 20 rocket alerts were sounded on Thursday in northern Israel, bordering Lebanon.

Auteur: AFP
Publié le: Vendredi 10 Avril 2026

Commentaires (2)

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    Blocked il y a 2 heures
    Et je suppose que ce qui se passe en Iran ne vaut pas la peine d'être médiatisé? How tf can u be so hypocrite?????
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    Sophie AntiZioniste il y a 1 heure
    J'espere que vous allez nous faire un article avec les enfants massacres lors de l'attaque zioniste au Liban, 100 bombardements en 10 minutes. Vraiment Allah est patient avec ce peuple criminel qui ne veut la paix avec aucun de ses voisins.

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