GAZA, (PIC)
In the midst of Israel’s ongoing war and siege, a baby boy froze to death on Sunday inside his displaced family’s tent in Deir al-Balah City in central Gaza as a result of the extreme cold weather and the absence of heating means.
Medical sources said that 30-day-old Jum’ah al-Batran died of hypothermia as a result of his presence in a fragile tent that have not protection from the extreme cold temperatures in the Gaza Strip.
Jum’ah is the fifth infant to have died of extreme cold conditions in displacement camps in recent days.
The infant’s father said he has another child in intensive care for the same reason.
Last Friday, a male nurse called Ahmed al-Zaharna also died of hypothermia inside his tent in southern Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands are packed in tent camps along coastal areas in western Gaza as the cold and wet winter has already set in.
