Amid the rubble of a shattered apartment building in Khan Younis, Gaza, rescuers unearthed a miracle on Thursday: a month-old baby girl, alive beneath the debris of an Israeli airstrike that killed her parents and brother.

As civil defense workers clawed through the wreckage, her faint cries pierced the silence, sparking shouts of “God is great.” A rescuer emerged, cradling the infant—Ella Osama Abu Dagga—in a blanket, rushing her to paramedics who confirmed her survival.

Born 25 days ago during a fragile ceasefire, Ella’s life was upended overnight when the strike hit Abasan al-Kabira, a village near Israel’s border.

The attack, part of Israel’s renewed bombardment that began Tuesday, killed 16, including her family and another with seven children, according to European Hospital. Only her grandparents survived. “She’d been screaming since dawn,” said first responder Hazen Attar, marveling at her rescue.

The ceasefire, mediated by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, had briefly halted a war that erupted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants killed 1,200 in Israel and took 251 hostages. Israel’s retaliation has since claimed nearly 49,000 Palestinian lives, per Gaza’s Health Ministry, with over 600 killed since fighting resumed—400 on Tuesday alone. Israel blames Hamas for embedding among civilians, a claim echoed in its silence on this strike, while reimposing a northern Gaza blockade.

Ella’s fate remains uncertain, with no clear guardian stepping forward. Her survival, a flicker of hope amid relentless loss, underscores the war’s toll—tens of thousands dead, a population displaced, and a fragile truce shattered as both sides dig in.