Malak was found in a tree near her family's ruined home in central Gaza. She was taken to the Emirati hospital in Rafah, the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.
Malak, which means angel in Arabic, is the star of the rooms where her de facto guardian works. "We have many catastrophic stories from the war that affect us, but the one that has moved me the most is that of Malak," doctor Amal Abu Khatleh says of her new role as a single mother and guardian. "When I see this baby without a family, I get very sad,” head of neonatology unit says of the 6-month-old's condition in the incubator. "I felt very touched and I got very close to her,’ says Abu K Hatleh, who took her “home with me and I promised to compensate her for what she had gone through.’ ” 17,000 Gaza children are unaccompanied or their families, according to an estimate by the United Nations Children's Fund (ICE)