All these deaths have occurred among displaced people in the Mawasi area, south of the Strip, living in precarious tents, many damaged by bad weather, from which many Gaza residents were forced to flee in the summer months.
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has warned that in recent days and due to the cold and lack of shelter dying babies in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, displaced by almost fifteen months of war, are living in tents.
The last dead newborn has passed away Yousef Anwar Clubwho was but 35 days old, and died last night due to hypothermia in the fenced Gaza Strip. This is the eighth fatality caused by the cold in recent weeks, which has already claimed the lives of six other babies and a young man.
The baby died “as a result of the harsh weather conditions and extreme cold,” confirmed the Gaza Ministry of Health, which said the number of victims had risen to eight due to the low temperatures in the enclave.
All these deaths have occurred among displaced people in the Mawasi area, south of the Strip, who in insecure tentsMany of them have been damaged by bad weather, so they do not protect well against the cold in the area where many Gazans went forced to flee in the summer months, meaning they do not have the right warm clothing to get through the winter.
“Cold weather and a lack of shelter are causing the deaths of newborns in Gaza, while 7,700 newborns are deprived of life-saving care,” the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) said.
Besides the Israeli army’s bombs, the cold is now the biggest threat to the people of Gaza, especially children. On the brink of 15 months of war, the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli attacks reaches 45,800, in addition to the 11,000 bodies missing under the rubble, according to data from the Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
Source: EITB
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