War on Gaza: Palestinian Infants Freeze to Death Amid Israeli Siege
- War on Gaza: Palestinian Infants Freeze to Death Amid Israeli Siege
by https://www.middleeasteye.net/
Gaza’s makeshift tents are ‘fridges of death’ for Palestinian babies, says top doctor
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Three Palestinian babies have died from hypothermia in southern Gaza over the past two days, as a suffocating Israeli siege makes harsh winter conditions uninhabitable. Doctors reported on Wednesday that a three-week-old girl froze to death overnight as temperatures plummeted amid a wet winter across the war-battered Palestinian enclave. The baby’s tent was not sealed against the wind and the ground was cold, the doctors said.
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On Thursday, another baby, Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh, was found unresponsive. By the time doctors reached her, her lungs had deteriorated and she was declared dead from hypothermia. “In the morning, when her mother was going to breastfeed her again, we found her blue, with blood coming from her mouth due to the cold,” her father said in a video shared online, holding her in a white shroud with her purple lips visible against her pale face.
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“She had bitten her tongue and was frozen.”
The baby “froze to death from the extreme cold” in al-Mawasi, said Dr Munir al-Bursh, director general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, on X.
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In another post, he described the tents in Gaza as “fridges of death”, citing the deaths of two other babies due to the bitter cold. According to Ahmed al-Farra, head of paediatrics and obstetrics at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the infants were a three-day-old and a one-month-old baby.
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