GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) In the past 48 hours, three Palestinian infants reportedly died from low temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter in the war-battered Gaza Strip.
As temperatures plummet and Israel’s blockade on food, water, medicine and essential winter supplies continues, Palestinian doctors said that three Palestinian babies, aged between four and 21 days, died of hypothermia in a displacement camp in al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza.
Al-Mawasi, a coastal area in the west of Rafah which has been previously designated by the Israeli occupation army as a “safe zone,” has repeatedly come under Israeli attacks. Thousands of displaced Palestinians have moved there in search of refuge, living for months in makeshift tents made of cloth and nylon.
Hundreds of thousands are packed in tent camps along coastal areas in western Gaza as the cold and wet winter sets in.
Meanwhile, health officials in Gaza have warned that food insecurity among Gazan mothers has also led to new cases of illness among children, while pregnant women, in particular, are going hungry amid severe food shortages.
