Her story has moved millions of people around the world: Aya, which means "miracle" in Arabic, is the newborn found alive under the rubble of the earthquake, still attached to her mother's umbilical cord, in northwestern Syria ( here the news ). And now thousands, from various parts of the globe, are stepping forward to adopt it. The little girl has no one: in addition to her mother, the earthquake also killed her father and four brothers. The BBC reports it.

A distant relative was there when she was rescued and transferred her to hospital in Afrin where she is in stable condition.

Hospital director Khalid Attiah also received dozens of calls from around the world with offers to take care of her. But the doctor, who has a daughter four months older than Aya, said: "I won't let anyone adopt her now. Until her distant family returns, I will treat her as one of my own family . " And for now, his wife is breastfeeding her along with her own child.

(Unioneonline/E.Fr.)

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