Five infants martyred from hypothermia amid ongoing Zionist occupation war on Gaza
GAZA – Extreme cold temperatures amid harsh living conditions imposed by the Zionist occupation have claimed the lives of five infants in less than a week, with thousands of families forced to live in makeshift tents, WAFA news agency reported on Sunday.
According to medical sources, the newborns, aged between 4 and 21 days, were martyred from hypothermia due to the extreme cold, exacerbated by a severe lack of resources in the besieged region.
“These preventable deaths lay bare the desperate and deteriorating conditions facing families and children across Gaza,” Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, reported in a statement.
“With temperatures expected to drop further in the coming days, it is tragically foreseeable that more children’s lives will be lost to the inhumane conditions they are enduring,” Beigbeder added.
In addition to the tragic loss of life, medical sources reported an increase in illnesses among children, driven by acute malnutrition, which is worsening health conditions in an already overwhelmed healthcare system.
UNICEF and other UN agencies have frequently reported that the Zionist occupation forces prevent aid convoys from entering the Gaza Strip and delivering supplies to those in need.
Beigbeder noted that, in November, an average of 65 truckloads of assistance entered the enclave daily, far too little to adequately address the urgent needs of civilians.
The Zionist occupation’s genocidal war on Gaza has resulted in at least 45,484 martyrs and 108,090 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Dozens more have been martyred due to the harsh conditions imposed by the occupation’s forces, including starvation, lack of medical care, and hypothermia.
