At least eight children, evacuated from Gaza as premature babies in the early weeks of the war, have returned from Egypt and been reunited with relatives.
The toddlers were among more than 30 severely ill new-borns in incubators, who were evacuated from Gaza's Shifa Hospital in November 2023, amid heavy fighting.
The hospital complex had earlier been occupied by Israeli forces on the grounds, they said, that it was being used by Hamas.
More than two years later, Sundus al-Kurd, one of the parents waiting for the children's arrival at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis today, said her daughter's return left her "torn between fear and joy" as she worried that she would not be accepted as a parent after so long apart.
Clutching a pink-embroidered dress for her daughter, Bisan, she described to the BBC how she had tried to take her new-born baby out of Shifa hospital after Israeli forces occupied it, but was told that she could not be moved from her incubator.
