APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza – 23 June 2020. The family of nine months old Palestinian baby Omar Yagi speak to media, in Gaza City
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Baby Omar Yaghi was eight months old when he died, unable to travel from Gaza to Israel for life-saving heart surgery after Israeli authorities cut coordination. Yaghi was born with complex heart problems and he started treatment at Israel's Sheba Medical Center when he was just one month old. Having been unable to return for the surgery, Yaghi suffered heart failure on June 17 and was resuscitated at a Gaza hospital.
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