
Winter in Gaza: 6 infants die due to severe cold in makeshift camps, medics report
Hindustan TimesAt least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of people are living in tent camps and war-damaged buildings during a fragile ceasefire, Palestinian medics said Tuesday. Prematurely born babies lie inside infant warmers at the neonatal intensive care unit of Nasser Medical Complex, currently at risk due to dwindling fuel supplies, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025 amid the ongoing war The coastal territory experiences cold, wet winters, with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius at night and storms blowing in from the Mediterranean Sea. Saeed Salah, of the Patient's Friends Hospital in Gaza City, said five infants aged one month or younger have died from the cold over the last two weeks, including a 1-month-old who died on Monday. Zaher al-Wahedi, head of the Gaza Health Ministry's records department, said it has recorded 15 deaths from hypothermia this winter, all of them children.
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