At least six babies have died for hypothermia In the last hours in the Gaza Strip hit by a wave of polar cold for several days, according to the Wafa news agency, which cites sanitary sources.
Five of them died in Ciudad de Gaza and the sixth, of just over a month, died inside their tent in the humanitarian area of Mawasi, in the south of the strip.
The director of the patient’s friends hospital, Saeed Salah, reported this morning of the death of three of them shortly after his hospital admission “Due to the intense cold and the lack of refuge“, in statements collected by the Sanad agency.
“They arrived with a very low temperature, As if they were ice blocks and suffered a fall in blood circulation. What affects the entire respiratory process as well as the functioning of kidneys, liver and brain, “he explained. In the first hour on Tuesday, Salah reported the death of three other babies.
Improvised camps
For his part, the head of the Nasser Hospital Department of Pediatrics, Ahmed al Farra, warned that The number of deaths among newborn babies will continue to growsince they cannot support the fall in temperatures without “heating, blankets and clothing.” In addition, Wafa reported that at least Three other babies are in critical condition for the intense cold.
Despite the cease-fire In the enclave, most The Gazatí population continues in tents or in improvised shelters surrounded by rubble, without heating or sufficient resources to be able to meet these low temperatures.
The director of the Middle Office of the Enclave Government has asked the international community “to adopt urgent measures to provide mobile houses as a temporary refuge for the more than 280,000 Palestinian families that lost their homes” as well as the entry of “fuel to give warm and protect innocent children. “
So far from winter, at least fifteen babies have died in the strip for hypothermia, he confirmed to Efe Zaher al Waheidi, director of the unit in the Ministry of Health in charge of the Deaths of Deaths in Gaza for the war.
Much of these deaths have occurred in the humanitarian area of Mawasi, in the south of the strip, crowded with displaced people who also live in tents after having run out of their homes by the Israeli bombings.
Source: Lasexta
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