In the past week, at least four infants have died of hypothermia from low temperatures and a lack of access to warmth while living in tents.
A newborn baby has died from the cold in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, a health official says, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes amid Israel's ongoing assault on the strip.Sela Mahmoud Al-Fasih "froze to death from the extreme cold" in Al-Mawasi, Dr Munir Al-Bursh, the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, posted on X on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, health workers are struggling to treat young patients due to shortages of electricity, diesel and other fuel.Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah, previously designated by Israel as a "humanitarian area," has repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.Sela Mahmoud Al-Fasih's mother Nariman told CNN that the baby died from "the cold".
Israel's assault, launched after the Hamas-led October 7 attack, has gutted Gaza's once-lively neighborhoods, erased entire families, and spawned a humanitarian crisis of starvation, displacement and disease. The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, warned that many displaced children in Gaza are wearing little more than the clothes on their backs – after many were forced to flee Israel's bombardment in summer clothes, earlier this year.Children displaced from Jabaliya in northern Gaza, play next to their tent at a camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.
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