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Palestinian infants freeze to death amid Israeli siege

Three Palestinian babies have died from hypothermia in southern Gaza over the past two days, as a suffocating Israeli siege makes harsh winter conditions uninhabitable. 

Doctors reported on Wednesday that a three-week-old girl froze to death overnight as temperatures plummeted amid a wet winter across the war-battered Palestinian enclave.

The baby's tent was not sealed against the wind and the ground was cold, the doctors said.

On Thursday, another baby, Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh, was found unresponsive. By the time doctors reached her, her lungs had deteriorated and she was declared dead from hypothermia.

"In the morning, when her mother was going to breastfeed her again, we found her blue, with blood coming from her mouth due to the cold," her father said in a video shared online, holding her in a white shroud with her purple lips visible against her pale face.

"She had bitten her tongue and was frozen."

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A Palestinian man holds the hand of his three-week-old niece, Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh, who died of hypothermia, in the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on 25 December 2024 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)
A Palestinian man holds the hand of his three-week-old niece, Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh, who died of hypothermia, in the morgue of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on 25 December 2024