The youngest victim of Hamas’ October 7 attacks was a 14-hour-old baby who was shot in her mother’s womb before doctors tried desperately to save her, it has been revealed.
Infant Naama Abu Rashed, a Bedouin-Israeli, died after being shot in the leg through her mother’s body as the Palestinian terror group led its shock assault into southern Israel in 2023, a new report has confirmed.
Naama’s mother was being driven to Soroka hospital by her husband Tarafi after she was woken up by labour pains at 5.30am on October 7. Ten terrorists fired at them with a machine gun as civilians were mown down indiscriminately 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 22:00 that evening, 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.
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 5-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 morning 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.
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.
