3 infants die in Gaza due to cold, lack of shelter: medical official

25/2/2025 19:15

At least three Palestinian infants have died in the past few hours in the Gaza Strip due to severe cold and the absence of adequate heating in their shelters, a medical official said Tuesday.



Saeed Salah, director of the Friends of the Patient Charitable Hospital in Gaza City, told Xinhua that the infants, all under two months old, arrived at the hospital in a state of hypothermia.



"Their bodies were like ice cubes," he said, explaining that the children had been living in makeshift tents in Gaza City without any proper heating.



The extreme cold caused a sharp drop in their blood circulation, leading to respiratory failure, heart complications, and organ dysfunction, and eventually their deaths.



Saeed warned of a growing humanitarian crisis, stressing the urgent need for adequate shelter and heating for infants and other vulnerable residents in Gaza.