A three-week-old baby girl froze to death

“Ahmed al-Farra, director of the children's department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, confirmed that the child died of hypothermia,” The Guardian reported. The daily also reported that, according to information provided by doctors, the three-week-old girl was the third person to die of cold in tent camps in the Gaza Strip in recent days. There were two other children before – one was three days old, the other a month old.

– It was very cold at night and even as adults we couldn't stand it. We couldn't keep warm, three-week-old Sila's father, Mahmoud al-Faseeh, told The Associated Press. He reported that he wrapped her in a blanket to try and keep her warm in their tent in the Al-Mawasi area outside the town of Khan Younis, but it was not enough.

“She was like wood,” al-Faseeh said. The unconscious girl was taken to a field hospital in the morning, where doctors tried to resuscitate her, but they failed to save her.

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“Israel's bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its statistics. The offensive caused widespread destruction and displaced about 90 percent of the 2, 3 million inhabitants of Gaza, often many times,” writes “The Guardian”.

More deaths caused by low temperatures are evidence of the poor living conditions of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are crammed into often crumbling tents after fleeing Israeli offensives. The daily notes that aid groups in Gaza are having trouble delivering food and supplies and say there is a shortage of blankets, warm clothes and firewood.

“Israel has increased the amount of aid it allows into the territory, reaching an average of 130 trucks a day this month, up from around 70 a day in October and November,” the Guardian article reads.

However, it was noted that, according to information provided by the United Nations, it was not possible to distribute more than half of the aid due to the lack of consent of Israeli forces to move around the Gaza Strip or due to the spread of lawlessness and theft.

CNN reported that on Wednesday Munir Al-Bursh, director general of the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, said that more than 17,600 children have been killed since the beginning of the war (in the Gaza Strip – ed.). However, according to the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarinia, who cited UN data, a child dies every hour in Gaza.

“The UN children's agency, UNICEF, has warned that many displaced children in the Gaza Strip are wearing little more than the clothes they are wearing after they were forced to flee Israel's bombing in summer clothes earlier this year.” we read in the CNN article.

The station also asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the death of three infants in the Al-Mawasi area.