Media reported seven infants died of hypothermia in Gaza
In the Gaza Strip, at least seven babies died of hypothermia in refugee camps. This was reported by Al Jazeera TV channel on January 2.
"At least seven infants in the Gaza Strip died of hypothermia due to the cold winter and heavy rains", - stated in the material.
It is specified that the deaths occurred amid Israel's restriction of humanitarian aid supplies to the enclave.
In addition, the channel reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strikes in the area of al-Mawasi in the south of Gaza, which is considered a humanitarian zone. The Jewish state's attacks have already killed 11 Palestinians.
On December 31 of last year, the IDF eliminated a field commander of the Palestinian radical Hamas movement in the humanitarian zone in the town of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The eliminated Abd al-Hadi Sabah was one of the senior radicals who led an attack by armed militants on Kibbutz Nir Oz near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023.
On December 16, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) told Izvestia that some 8,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are facing starvation. The fund added that at least 345,000 people, including 38,000 teenage girls, live in hunger conditions in the Gaza Strip.
In November, the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philip Lazzarini said that the number of dead as well as those buried under rubble in the Gaza Strip may exceed 43,000, and the number of injured may exceed 103,000.
The situation in the Middle East escalated on the morning of October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian radical movement Hamas subjected the territory of Israel to massive rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. On the same day, Israel began retaliatory strikes.
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