Fourth Palestinian newborn dies from the cold as Israel continues to obliterate Gaza
Imam Islam Abu Suaied prays over the bodies of two babies before their burial at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, December 29, 2024
A FOURTH infant has died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of Israeli attacks are huddled in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives.
Twenty-day-old Jomaa al-Batran was found with his head as “cold as ice” when his parents woke up today, his father Yehia said. The baby’s twin brother Ali was moved to the intensive care unit of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Their father said the twins had been born one month premature and spent just a day in the nursery at the hospital, which, like other health centres in Gaza, has been overwhelmed by victims of Israel’s genocidal bombardment and is only partially functioning.
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