Baby Mais is two months old and already bears the scars of a harrowing conflict which has wiped out most of her family. But it is not the relentless air strikes and barrel bombs which put Mais in hospital.
The tot was stabbed by her own mother, who then tried to kill herself in a desperate bid to end their nightmare existence.
The traumatised mother was already grieving the deaths of her husband and two sons when she launched her attack.
Little Mais was knifed in the stomach and survived, while her mother was treated for her injuries and arrested.
Hanaa said: “The mother said killing her baby and sending her to heaven was better than the hell they were living in.
“It’s a mental breakdown. I can’t talk about it without crying, without being very emotional.
“I went to the children’s ward, in the incubator area, and this doctor just put this gorgeous girl in my hands, she was only two months old.
“She had a wound in her tummy because her mother had stabbed her after birth.
“The family had been displaced five times in three years, she lost both her sons and her husband in the war recently and in the end she just couldn’t cope.
“But holding that baby showed me the power of resilience, the power of life. It shows the power of life always beats cruelty.
“There is always hope, this beautiful, gorgeous baby is healing and surviving very well. The doctors performed a miracle.”
But it needs an even bigger miracle to bring a halt to the wider suffering in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
As Russian and Syrian forces rain bombs down, victims pour into creaking hospitals.
Children bleed to death on hospital floors or are left writhing in bloody clothes on trolleys. There are few doctors – just 25 in the city’s five functioning hospitals.
Mum tried to kill her own baby to free her from the living nightmare in Syria
The tot was stabbed by her own mother, who then tried to kill herself in a desperate bid to end their nightmare existence.
The traumatised mother was already grieving the deaths of her husband and two sons when she launched her attack.
Little Mais was knifed in the stomach and survived, while her mother was treated for her injuries and arrested.
Hanaa said: “The mother said killing her baby and sending her to heaven was better than the hell they were living in.
“It’s a mental breakdown. I can’t talk about it without crying, without being very emotional.
“I went to the children’s ward, in the incubator area, and this doctor just put this gorgeous girl in my hands, she was only two months old.
“She had a wound in her tummy because her mother had stabbed her after birth.
“The family had been displaced five times in three years, she lost both her sons and her husband in the war recently and in the end she just couldn’t cope.
“But holding that baby showed me the power of resilience, the power of life. It shows the power of life always beats cruelty.
“There is always hope, this beautiful, gorgeous baby is healing and surviving very well. The doctors performed a miracle.”
But it needs an even bigger miracle to bring a halt to the wider suffering in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.
As Russian and Syrian forces rain bombs down, victims pour into creaking hospitals.
Children bleed to death on hospital floors or are left writhing in bloody clothes on trolleys. There are few doctors – just 25 in the city’s five functioning hospitals.
Mum tried to kill her own baby to free her from the living nightmare in Syria
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