![]() Sitting around them are her boy cousin Shami and her girl cousins Mariam, left, and Doaa ‘I just knew his house had collapsed’ Baby Afraa (in the pink hat) is on her uncle Khalil’s lap with her cousin Ataa. The family welcomed Al Jazeera into their simple tent to talk about the day Afraa was born, finding her in the rubble, and their sorrow at losing their relatives. ![]() She has six new cousin siblings, the eldest is 10-year-old Mal al-Sham and the youngest is one-month-old Ataa, who was born two days after Afraa. Instead, baby Afraa now lives with her “new family”: her paternal aunt, 31-year-old Hala, and her husband and children in a small camp set up by her extended family members whose homes were destroyed in the quakes. This is the story of them rebuilding their lives as baby Afraa completes 40 days – traditionally a time of celebration for both baby and mother in Syria. Her entire family died when their house collapsed on them, and their close relatives who lived next door took her in. ![]() Jandaris, Syria – The story of the “miracle baby”, born in the rubble as her mother died, captivated the world when the quakes hit southern Turkey and northwestern Syria on February 6.
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