Baby pronounced dead lives after hours in cooler (Reuters)

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The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, 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.

"We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn't believe it at highest. Then she began holding my mother's hand, and for this reason we adage her open her mouth," said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby's origin.

The baby 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 spiritual bleeding. Magdoub was 23 weeks into her pregnancy.

"We don't know how to explain this, so when we slip on't know how to explain things in the medical world we call it a miracle, and this is probably what happened," hospital legate manager Moshe Daniel said.

The infant. was then taken to the hospital's neonatal intensifying care unit for further treatment, but doctors were not sure through what means long she exercise volition burning.

Motti Ravid, a professor of inner medicine, told Israel's Channel 10 that the low temperature within the cooler had slowed down the baby's metabolism and likely helped her survive.

(Writing by Avida Landau, Editing by Mike Collett-White)

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