Heartbreaking image shows baby wrapped in bandages after suffering horror burns in Israeli airstrike on Lebanon hometown
HEARTBREAKING photos show a severely burned baby wrapped in bandages after she was horrifically injured in an Israeli airstrike.
Ivana Skayki’s mother says she was only able to find her one-year-old baby through the black smoke by her screams.
Israel invaded Lebanon last month as it seeks to destroy the terror group Hezbollah and push it away from the border.
Her parents were packing to flee their home when missiles struck their hometown of al Aliyah in southern Lebanon on September 23.
Now baby Ivana is wrapped in bandages after she was brutally burned in the rocket explosion, Sky News reports.
Mum Fatimah was preparing breakfast in the kitchen and escaped serious injury when the blast hit – but her daughters were upstairs on the balcony.
She said: “Everything was on fire, there was black smoke… I only managed to find my children from their screams.”
After pulling her kids out of the smoke Fatima, husband Mohammad, Ivana, and sister Rahaf jumped out a window to escape.
Ivana’s burns were so bad that she is now recovering in Lebanon’s only specialist burns unit in Beirut.
Fatima said that Ivana could barely move any parts of her body after she was engulfed in the flames.
She said: “Honestly, I didn’t have any hope she would survive.”
Ivana has now had multiple skin grafts and is wrapped head to toe in bandages as she begins the long road to recovery.
Much of her skin is still peeling and he head remains wrapped in gauze.
The burns unit is dealing with increasing numbers of patients as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon.
Hadi Mushref, a nurse in the burns unit, said: “We’ve been working so hard, even during our days off, to cope with the overcrowding”.
It comes as Israel has been releasing footage showing off its invasion in Lebanon.
A clip released today show the moment Israeli special forces say they raided a Hezbollah terror compound packed with missiles, rocket launchers, and explosives.
Footage shows the troops walking through bush and investigating a cave compound dug into rock.
Troops have found a number of terror tunnels in the south of the country they say Hezbollah was using as staging points.
Inside the tunnels IDF soldiers find weapons, clothing, and food so the fighters can live there for months.
Another clip was released Saturday of soldiers capturing a top Hezbollah terror commander inside Lebanon and escaping in speedboats.
IDF naval commandos captured the official in a daring rain in the north of the country as fighting rages in the south.
Imad Amhaz was considered by the IDF to be a “significant source of knowledge” in the terror group’s naval force.
Ali Hamie, Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport, claimed that Amhaz was only a captain of civilian ships.
Hezbollah names new leader
Last week, Hezbollah named its new boss as Naim Qassem – an ageing terrorist who gave a chilling speech this month vowing to fight on.
Qassem, the former deputy leader, is replacing Hassan Nasrallah – who was killed by Israel last month in massive airstrikes on Beirut.
His accession to the top of Hezbollah will make him the chief target for Israeli assassins, who have already killed dozens of terror chiefs in Lebanon and Gaza.
He takes the reins as Hezbollah defends against an Israeli invasion in the south of Lebanon.
When Qassem was appointed, Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gollant said: “The appointment is temporary. The countdown has begun.”