A frail cry and relief: Malnourished baby Siwar evacuated from Gaza

The BBC travels in an ambulance from the Gaza border to Amman with Siwar and her family

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It was the cry of a voice that won't give up, of a child born in this war and who has now, for a while at least, managed to escape it.

In person six-month-old Siwar is tinier than any visual image can convey. She weighs 3kg (6.6lb) but should be twice that. Her mother, Najwa, 23, smiled as she described her feelings on crossing into Jordan on Wednesday, when her daughter was evacuated from Gaza with other Palestinian children. The first thing she noticed was the quiet.

"It feels like there is a truce," she told me. "We will spend our night without rockets and bombing with God's will."

Siwar was also accompanied by her grandmother Reem and her father Saleh who is blind.