Warning: This story contains a picture of newborns with serious injuries and a description of the injury and death of several other babies.
At least six newborns have died of cold injuries in the last two weeks in the Gaza belt, according to local doctors because of the lack of appropriate shelter and heating.
Temperatures have come across in recent days over the destroyed enclaves, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have had little shelters from the cold, living in improvised camps or destroyed buildings. Local officials call more humanitarian aid to enter Strip gauze – including tents, mobile homes, fuel and heavy machines to clean the ruins – in the midst of a fragile truck between Israel and Hamas.
Dr. Saeed Salah, Director of the Medical Institution for Patients in the City of Gaza, said that the cold weather wave had greatly influenced the infant at the age of one month or younger.
Five of the six death cases of newborns were reported by the hospital, Salah said, consisting of about 60 percent of patients with infants who were admitted due to “cold injuries”, including hypothermia.
“These [babies] They live with their families in a very bad situation … they live in tents without warming content, without electricity, without fuel, “he told CBC News on Tuesday.
“That’s why this is critical [age] Group, newborns, suffers from the cold. “
Dr. Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient Friends Medical Institution in the City of Gaza, said his hospital reported on five of the six deaths of newborns in Gaza in the last two weeks due to cold weather and a lack of appropriate shelter in war -torn enclave.
Dr. Ahmed al-Farah, head of the Pediatric Department at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Gazi, Khan Younis, said Associated Press that he had received the body of a two-month-old girl on Tuesday.
“I had a ventured clothes and patted her, but there was no breath or heart rate,” said the girl’s father, Yusuf al-Shinbat, who found her early in the morning. “I played with her yesterday, I bathing and smelled it. I was happy with her. She was [beautiful] Child, like the moon. “
Al-Farah said two more newborns were treated with freezing at Nasser Hospital. One was fired later, while the other was in intensive care.
The body of one “was completely blue and its temperature was very low,” the doctor said.
The gauze comic book, located on the Mediterranean coast, experiences cold and humid winters, and the temperatures dropped below 10 ° C at night.
Salah said before the war, the hospital will see one or two cases of infants from hypothermia in the winter season. This figure has increased to 15 this winter season, according to Zaher al-Wahedi, head of the Department of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
‘Kids can’t handle it’
Wissam Hamad, a 30-year-old father of two, walks 16 kilometers every day to reach a friend of a medical institution for patients in Gaza from the northeast city of Beit Hanoun to see his son, a three-week patient suffers from severe cold injuries there.
“We don’t have a Beit Hanoun or North operating hospital,” Hamad told CBC News on Tuesday.
“The cold we are experiencing, children cannot handle it … We live in tents or weigh in schools that have broken walls or windows. I have no heat in our tent.”
The interruption of the fire that paused in the 16 months of the war between the militants of Israel and Hamas enabled the increase in humanitarian aid, mostly food, but the residents say there are still defects of blankets and warm clothing, and there are few wood for fires.
There was no central current in Gaza from the first few days of the war, and the fuel for generators is scarce. Many families hang out on moist sand or naked concrete.
The death of infants comes as officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the suspension of US administration funding has frozen critical enclave operations.
The Trump Administration move to subtract $ 46 million, scheduled for operations in Gaza, leaves six areas of under -funded, an official of the top in the region announced on Tuesday.
Dr. RIK Peeperkorn, a WHO representative for occupied Palestinian territory, said these areas include EMT operations, rehabilitation of health care institutions, coordination with partner organizations and medical evacuation.
Speaking from Gaza reporters at the UN briefing, the Geneva, Peeperkorn said that money for such operations remains in who financed the pipeline and “we are still going full of money forward” with activities.
Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman who is a spokesman, said he had no figure that US decrease in financing had influenced the overall of their business around the world.
1. Phase of the tribute that ended on Saturday
In a statement on Monday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas accused Israel of obstructing humanitarian aid and shelter material, saying that it directly resulted in the death of six infants.
He invited the mediators who participated in the Agreement on the tribute to ensure the entry of basic stocks such as shelter, heating and emergency medical subjects in Gaza.
The Israeli military offensive, launched in response to the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, was among the most deadly and most devastating in recent history. He inserted large gauze surfaces into the ruins and displaced approximately 1.9 million Palestinians. Hundreds of thousands of people who could return to the northern gauze under the defects were settled wherever they could in the middle of the ruins.
The first phase of the switch will end on Saturday and may not be extended. If the fight continues, the current flow of humanitarian aid is expected to fall dramatically.
Israeli officials said on Tuesday that Israel considered the extension of the 42-day trial in Gaza.
