Siwar was born at the Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. Her mother and doctor said she was suffering from severe malnutrition because the special milk formula she needed could not be found in sufficient quantity.

Her mother Najwa said she could not breastfeed Siwar because she herself was suffering from malnutrition.

“I thought she would be gone for just three or four days and then come back, a simple treatment and she’d return,” her other recalled. “But I was shocked that it dragged on and took so long…and eventually I realised that her condition is very serious and difficult.”

Six-month-old Siwar is tinier. 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.

“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.

“The first and last goal of this trip is Siwar,” said Saleh. “We want to get her to a safe shore. I want to make sure she is safe and cured. She’s my daughter, my own flesh and blood. And I’m so deeply worried about her.”

It was Reem who carried Siwar off the bus onto Jordanian soil, forming her fingers into a V sign as she came.

“Until now, I can’t believe that I have arrived in Jordan. I saw King’s Abdullah’s photo at the border and I felt so happy I got off the bus and made the sign of victory…for the sake of Siwar.”

reporting by Alice Doyard, Suha Kawar, Matthew Goddard and Malaak Hassouneh.