The said “miracle baby” spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital’s refrigerated storage units, before her parents (who had taken her to be buried) began noticing some movement. The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, was pronounced dead several hours earlier, after doctors at Western Galilee hospital in northern Israel were forced to abort her mother’s pregnancy because of internal bleeding. 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy. She recalls,

“We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn’t believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother’s hand, and then we saw her open her mouth.”

The hospital deputy director Moshe Daniel said, “We don’t know how to explain this, so when we don’t know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened.” The baby was then taken to the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure how long she will live.