6 newborn babies freeze to death in Gaza amid cold weather

Six newborn babies froze to death in the Gaza Strip amid cold weather in the war-torn enclave, a Palestinian health official said on Tuesday.

“Six infants died from severe cold in Gaza,” Marwan al-Hams, Director General of Field Hospitals in Gaza, told the local Al-Aqsa TV.

He appealed for allowing access to power generators and oxygen stations to help hospitals provide services to Palestinians.

Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza, told Anadolu early Tuesday that nine infants were hospitalized in the past two weeks due to health complications caused by severe cold.

“Of the nine cases, five babies aged between one day and two weeks died,” he said.

He said the nine babies were transferred to the hospital from northern Gaza, where most of the population has been displaced and living in tents following Israel’s destructive war on the enclave.