Children inspect the site of reported Israeli bombardment on tents sheltering Palestinians displaced from Beit Lahia at a camp in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 25, 2024
The eighth baby has died from hypothermia in the besieged Gaza Strip where the Israeli regime is pressing ahead with a full-scale extermination and ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians.
Ali Youssef Ahmed Kloub, whose home was a tent on a beach, was the latest infant to die from the cold in recent days across the besieged Palestinian region.
The mother of Youssef has talked about her suffering and harsh conditions in light of the severe cold wave that befell her family members.
She said her family lacked the necessities of life, forcing her to borrow “bedding and covers” from some of the displaced people who themselves were even desperately attempting to protect their children from the harsh cold.
Several children have died from hypothermia so far this winter after being displaced by Israel’s campaign of death and destruction in Gaza, health officials have said.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians have moved to Al-Mawasi in search of refuge, living for months in makeshift tents made of cloth and nylon. Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah, previously designated by Israel as a “humanitarian area,” has repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, recently said that Gaza babies “are freezing to death due to cold weather and a lack of shelter.”
“Blankets, mattresses, and other winter supplies have been stuck in the region for months waiting for approval to get into Gaza,” he said in a recent message on X.
Latest media reports and social media users said civilians in Gaza face dire and deadly winter amid Israel's offensive.
"I was in the surgery room today at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and a man was searching for his blood-soaked blanket," Abubaker Abed, Press TV's reporter in Gaza, posted on X.
"The cleaners seem to have thrown it away. His eyes were teary because he had no other blankets and didn't know how to sleep the night. He kept saying he would clean it and pleaded with the workers to find it for him," he said.
Temperatures are significantly dropping right now in Gaza as it is on the cusp of facing another low-pressure front.
The father of the baby was at the morgue of the hospital, crying. This is not the only child that he has lost: since the onset of winter, he has lost two children. Both of them passed away from hypothermia.
This comes as Israeli forces have slaughtered more than 1,000 infants in the Gaza Strip over the past 15 months.
The Gaza Media Office has said that 1,091 infants have been killed since Israel launched its campaign of genocide in the besieged Palestinian territory on October 7, 2023.
At least 238 of those babies were killed just after they were born.
According to Gaza health officials, Israel has slaughtered more than 17,600 children since October 2023 – one child every 30 minutes.
Palestinian health authorities and rights groups have warned that more babies are losing their lives due to a severe temperature drop and lack of shelter in Gaza.
As many as 17,000 children have been left unaccompanied or separated from their parents and caregivers.
UNICEF has said that babies are being “delivered into hell” in Gaza.
Israel has massacred over 45,800 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says Gaza has lost about 6 percent of its population due to Israel’s campaign of genocide.
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