Three Palestinian babies freeze to death in Gaza as winter sets in

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By Tareq El Hilou, Eyad Kourdi, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman and Sana Noor Haq, CNN

 

(CNN) A newborn baby froze to death in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, on Wednesday, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes amid Israel’s ongoing assault on the strip.

 

Sela Mahmoud Al-Fasih “froze to death from the extreme cold” in Al-Mawasi, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, the director general of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, posted on X on Wednesday.

 

In the past 48 hours, Al-Fasih and at least two other infants – a three-day-old and a one-month-old – have died from low temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, the head of pediatrics and obstetrics at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, told CNN.

 

Full story: BBC 

-- 2024-12-26

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

Expect more. Tents made out of plastic don't protect against cold.

 

 

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-149-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem

The heavy rains are estimated to affect over 1.6 million people living in makeshift shelters across the Gaza Strip, with thousands of displaced families living in tents along the coast in southwest Gaza being particularly affected by flooding and rising seawater. According to preliminary assessments, about 7,000 families residing along the shoreline were affected by recent rains, with thousands of tents flooded, belongings destroyed and shelters damaged.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

"In the past 48 hours...at least two have died from low temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter"

It's the Palestinian leadership that are denying them access to shelter.  No one is freezing in Qatar or in the tunnels of Gaza.  They value the lives of foreign hostages more than their Palestinian infants.  That seems to be the only point on which the Palestinian leadership agrees with the Israeli leadership.  

[loong]

Minimum temperature in Gaza is around 8 degrees C, which is well above freezing, so it surprises me that an infant can freeze to death. The parent used body heat to warm the child, so maybe the cold was not the full cause.

[Bkk Brian]

So they couldn't make the famine stick, now down to claims of freezing babies. From no other than a doctor at Nasser Hospital where hostages themselves admit they were kept and the IDF found medications for them that was sent from their families but never given to them.

 

Pathetic Hamas propaganda.

 

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/families-sent-medications-for-hostages-gazan-children-in-eu-aid-shipment-report/

 

 

[koolkarl]

Never heard of a rich muslim oil country doing anything to help their fellow muslims like taking them into their own country and give them the necessities of life.  Aljazeera has never said this for an obvious reason.

[Andre0720]

If so, if.

These would be casualties from the actions of Hamas.

And this information is not directed to Hamas, simply because Hamas really does not care at all about casualties resulting from their doings...

"Hate" governs so many of the actions in that part of the world. And hate does not have room for other emotions...

 

The only way to resolve this conflict, is by the elimination of "hate".

Starting by Hamas, then undoing all the brainwashing that has tainted the culture in that part of the world, starting by modifying what is taught to children..

[koolkarl]

9 hours ago, Andre0720 said:

If so, if.

These would be casualties from the actions of Hamas.

And this information is not directed to Hamas, simply because Hamas really does not care at all about casualties resulting from their doings...

"Hate" governs so many of the actions in that part of the world. And hate does not have room for other emotions...

 

The only way to resolve this conflict, is by the elimination of "hate".

Starting by Hamas, then undoing all the brainwashing that has tainted the culture in that part of the world, starting by modifying what is taught to children..

In theory you are right but dream on.  I have another solution in mind.

[Nick Carter icp]

Has the World grown tired of the  Palestinians claims ?

Are they now crying "Wolf" ?

Or has interest in their cause naturally waned and people have moved onto other issues ?

  "Babies freezing to death you say" , Oh right 

'

[KhunLA]

8 hours ago, loong said:

Minimum temperature in Gaza is around 8 degrees C, which is well above freezing, so it surprises me that an infant can freeze to death. The parent used body heat to warm the child, so maybe the cold was not the full cause.

One of the most ignorant posts I've read in a long (OK short) time.   A little education goes a long way, about external temps and the human body, especially if not getting the nutrients to produce a bit of energy/heat for the body.  Especially if not having the proper clothing to maintain that body heat.

 

Exposure to the elements are deadly ...

 

[loong]

2 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

One of the most ignorant posts I've read in a long (OK short) time.   A little education goes a long way, about external temps and the human body, especially if not getting the nutrients to produce a bit of energy/heat for the body.  Especially if not having the proper clothing to maintain that body heat.

 

Exposure to the element are deadly ...

 

 

I assume that the child was clothed, and the parent stated that they used their own body heat to keep the baby warm. It seems reasonable to think that there may have been other issues especially as so many other children have survived the chilly weather.

[RuamRudy]

12 hours ago, koolkarl said:

Never heard of a rich muslim oil country doing anything to help their fellow muslims like taking them into their own country and give them the necessities of life.  Aljazeera has never said this for an obvious reason.

 

The Palestinians are already in their own country. Why would they want to leave? 

[Chomper Higgot]

13 hours ago, koolkarl said:

Never heard of a rich muslim oil country doing anything to help their fellow muslims like taking them into their own country and give them the necessities of life.  Aljazeera has never said this for an obvious reason.

Palestinians have a home, in Palestine.

[Chomper Higgot]

14 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

"In the past 48 hours...at least two have died from low temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter"

It's the Palestinian leadership that are denying them access to shelter.  No one is freezing in Qatar or in the tunnels of Gaza.  They value the lives of foreign hostages more than their Palestinian infants.  That seems to be the only point on which the Palestinian leadership agrees with the Israeli leadership.  

Can you please provide a link to back up your claim that “It's the Palestinian leadership that are denying them access to shelter.”

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

6 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Has the World grown tired of the  Palestinians claims ?

Are they now crying "Wolf" ?

Or has interest in their cause naturally waned and people have moved onto other issues ?

  "Babies freezing to death you say" , Oh right 

'

I guess denying the report helps you avoid dealing with the obscenity of a baby freezing to death.

 

[coolcarer]

6 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Has the World grown tired of the  Palestinians claims ?

Are they now crying "Wolf" ?

Or has interest in their cause naturally waned and people have moved onto other issues ?

  "Babies freezing to death you say" , Oh right 

'

I thought the beauty they came up with earlier this month was even more bizarre. Israel has a new weapon that vaporizes bodies. The Hamas supporters lap it all up

[coolcarer]

2 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

The Palestinians are already in their own country. Why would they want to leave? 

You need to catch up. Lots want to leave. You seen the huge frigging wall that Egypt has built? Do you know the massive amounts of money they are prepared to pay to leave? 

[Nick Carter icp]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I guess denying the report helps you avoid dealing with the obscenity of a baby freezing to death.

 

 

   I do not believe anything that comes from the Palsedtians side .

They have been shown to lie frequently and incessantly .

You would have to be a gullible fool to believe anything that they say or claim 

[georgegeorgia]

I'm certainly not disbelieving the story.

I don't know when this happened but yesterday was very hot 

I had to have the Air conditioning on unless it was written earlier this year 

 

 

[NickyLouie]

Have they freed the hostages yet?

 

[Phillip9]

This article loses all credibility when they are using terms like "extreme cold" and "froze" to describe a day when the temperature ranged between 18 - 8 degrees C.  

 

That's not much colder than my bedroom at night with the AC on.

[koolkarl]

12 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

The Palestinians are already in their own country. Why would they want to leave? 

In Gaza, not a country, no work, no buildings, dire conditions and as long as Hamas exists and holds the hostages, no improvement.

[koolkarl]

11 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Palestinians have a home, in Palestine.

They aren't Palestinians but muslims without a future if they stay there and Hamas exists and continues to hold the hostages.

[Chomper Higgot]

59 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

They aren't Palestinians but muslims without a future if they stay there and Hamas exists and continues to hold the hostages.

They are Palestinians, quit your gaslighting.

 

I’m also reading certain that if they turned up en masse in your home country seeking sanctuary you’d be demanding they be sent back to where they came from.

[Bkk Brian]

10 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I guess denying the report helps you avoid dealing with the obscenity of a baby freezing to death.

 

I guess flip side to that would be you believing the report to avoid dealing with checking evidence or any credibility to it.  Apart from the word of the dear Doctor who has been there for a year reporting to the press and baring in mind that 30 hostages were also kept in 3 separate rooms at the same hospital, I'm sure you can believe everything he claims right............

[Chomper Higgot]

7 hours ago, NickyLouie said:

Have they freed the hostages yet?

 

This baby or this baby’s parents took and are holding hostages?

[Chomper Higgot]

9 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I do not believe anything that comes from the Palsedtians side .

They have been shown to lie frequently and incessantly .

You would have to be a gullible fool to believe anything that they say or claim 

I would agree that both sides are operating a propaganda campaign but that isn’t a reason to disbelieve everything except what your preferred side has to say.

A new born child in a tent encampment dying of hyperthermia is not at all unbelievable and masks other obscenity of a civilian population being displaced into a camp by military attacks on their homes.

 

Anyway, it’s Christmas, don’t let me interrupt the flow of callous spleen venting.

 

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

12 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I would agree that both sides are operating a propaganda campaign but that isn’t a reason to disbelieve everything except what your preferred side has to say.

A new born child in a tent encampment dying of hyperthermia is not at all unbelievable and masks other obscenity of a civilian population being displaced into a camp by military attacks on their homes.

 

Anyway, it’s Christmas, don’t let me interrupt the flow of callous spleen venting.

 

 

 

Evidence always helps too. Especially when it comes out of this doctors mouth. 

 

As for the civilian population being displaced, would you rather have them stayed where they were, I know Hamas wanted that as well.

[Woke to Sounds]

Is this propaganda from the same source that tried to get Disease X to stick?

[Chomper Higgot]

Circumvent the propaganda from both sides.

 

Give the world’s news reporters free access to report independently and directly from the camp.

 

Surely they’re not going to be in the way of any military action or betraying the location of troops while reporting from a refugee camp.