The latest victim of the assaults carried out by Hamas on October 7 was a newborn baby just 14 hours old. Shockingly, the baby girl was shot while still in her mother’s womb and despite the efforts of medical professionals, she could not be saved.
Named Naama Abu Rashed, the infant was an Israeli of Bedouin descent. Tragically, she succumbed to her wounds after being hit in the leg by gunfire while still inside her mother when the Palestinian militant group initiated its surprise attack on southern Israel in 2023, a recent report has detailed.
On the fateful day, Naama’s mother, accompanied by her husband Tarafi, was on her way to Soroka hospital after going into labor at 5:30 in the morning. As they made their way, a group of ten terrorists unleashed a hail of bullets in their direction using a machine gun, injuring both the mother and the unborn child as innocent civilians fell victim to the indiscriminate violence orchestrated by Hamas gunmen.
Upon arrival at the hospital, doctors were forced to carry out an emergency delivery and found that a bullet had hit Naama’s leg.
While she was born alive, she succumbed to her wounds at around 10pm the same day, a report on the attacks commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Israel acknowledged today, identifying Naama.
The MP and Peer-commissioned report identified all 18 British nationals killed in the attacks for the first time.
It was established to act as a ‘permanent memorial’ of the atrocities of the attack and create a record of truth about the events of the day to combat misinformation and distortion.
People flee the Nova Peace Festival early on October 7 after Hamas launched an incursion into southern Israel. After firing rockets over the border, armed men in trucks, on motorcycles and on paragliders would sweep through the festival, shooting civilians as they fled
Abandoned and torched vehicles at the site of the October 7 attack on the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Reim in the Negev desert in southern Israel
A woman reacts next to a portrait at the memorial site for the victims of the October 7 massacre on the eve of the anniversary, October 6, 2024, near Kibbutz Re’im
Jake Marlowe was shot nine times and his body was identified by his father on Oct 11 using a tattoo on his calf
Two other babies were killed by Hamas – 9-month-old Mila Cohen and Kfir Bibas, who was kidnapped aged 9 months before he was killed in captivity alongside his mother, Shiri, and five-year-old brother according to the report.
In total 29 children aged between 0 – 17 were murdered by terrorists on October 7.
Rotem Kalderon, 66, who was killed in her home on Kibbutz Be’eri, has been identified as the 18th British victim of the barbaric terror attack.
The retired preschool teacher and grandmother-of-three was murdered in her safe room after managing to hold the door closed for nearly two hours as terrorists attempted to break in.
After the attack it took two weeks for her body to be identified.
Some 16 British nationals killed in the initial attack had already been identified, along with a further UK citizen, 51-year-old Nadav Popplewell, who died while being held as a hostage by Hamas.
Amongst the new details included in the report are the definitive tragic fates of all 18 British casualties.
This includes the final voice note sent by British-Israeli nova security guard Jake Marlowe to his friend at 6.30am on the day of Hamas’s assault.
The message from the British-born musician was: ‘We are rounding up the people from the party now, we are on an ATV and we are telling everyone to get the f*** outta there.’
Marlowe was shot nine times and his body was identified by his father on Oct 11 using a tattoo on his calf.
Rotem Kalderon, 66, who was killed in her home on Kibbutz Be’eri, has today been named as the 18th British victim of the barbaric terror attack
The retired preschool teacher and grandmother-of-three was murdered in her safe room after managing to hold the door closed for nearly two hours
An IDF soldier stands at the scene where Israeli citizens Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky, both 30, died trying to save the lives of their 10-month-old twins in their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza after armed members of Hamas broke in on October 7. The twins, who had been hidden in the house’s safe room, survived
A car destroyed in an attack by Hamas is seen in Sderot, Israel, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, amid the first strikes into Israel
Members of Hamas ride an Israeli military vehicle that was seized by gunmen who infiltrated areas of southern Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip October 7
A photo hangs on a fridge next to bullets holes in a house at Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel, October 21, 2023. The Kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from the nearby Gaza Strip on October 7, when they killed and captured many Israelis
Hamas fighters cross the border into Israel on October 7 using motorised paraglidersThey discovered that a bullet had hit Naama’s leg and while she was born alive, she succumbed to her wounds at around 22:00 that evening.
Reflecting on his report, historian and Conservative peer Lord Andrew Roberts said: ‘This report will serve as a permanent memorial and enduring resource for governments, educators, and civil society in order to safeguard the truth against denialism and distortion.
‘The purpose of commissioning our report has been to chronicle the events of 7 October with clarity and meticulous, fact checking precision, to ensure it is never forgotten.’
The report found a total of 1,182 people were killed in the assault by around 7,000 Hamas militants.
Civilians accounted for 73 per cent of the victims, the report found, with the oldest a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor.
It also found evidence of widespread sexual violence and desecration of corpses including posthumous mutilations, beheadings and the booby-trapping of bodies with explosives.
