At least four infants have died of hypothermia in recent weeks Gaza stripwhere hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, displaced by nearly 15 months of war, are crammed into tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter approaches.

20-day-old Jomaa al-Batran was found with an “ice-cold” head when his parents woke up on Sunday, his father Yehia said.

Their father said that the twins were born a month early and spent only one day in the hospital's nursery, which. like other health centers in Gaza is overloaded and only partially functional.

She said doctors told their mother to keep the babies warm, but that was impossible because they were living in a tent and the temperature would regularly drop below 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) at night, and deaths from hypothermia could occur At a temperature of 30 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

“There are eight of us, and we have only four blankets,” said al-Batran, cradling his son's pale body. He described drops of dew seeping through the tent's covering overnight. “Look at his color, for it is cold, do you see how cold he is?'

The children, some of them barefoot, stood outside watching him mourn. The veiled child, barely bigger than his shoes, was placed at the imam's feet. After the prayer, the imam removed his ankle-length coat and wrapped it around his father.

“Keep warm, my brother,” he said.

Dr. Fida Al-Nadi, a doctor at Nasser Hospital, told CBS News that they see one or two cases of hypothermia every day. The youngest, Al-Nadi said, are the most vulnerable.

“With the stress we live in, many babies are born prematurely, and that makes them more prone to hypothermia,” Al-Nadi said.

Mahmoud al-Fasieh buried his daughter Sila last week, she died of hypothermia at just 3 weeks old.

“I went to wake him up to breastfeed and he was cold and blue, he was bleeding from the nose,” she told The Associated Press.

Israel launched an attack on the Gaza Strip after declaring war on Hamas following deadly attacks by the group's militants on October 7, 2023, which killed nearly 1,200 people.

Israel's bombing and ground invasion of Gaza has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its estimates.

The attacker caused widespread destruction and about 90% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced, often multiple times.

Aid groups are struggling to deliver food and supplies and say there are shortages of blankets, warm clothes and firewood.

An Israeli attack on the top floor of a Gaza City hospital on Sunday killed at least seven people and wounded several others, according to first responders affiliated with the Hamas-led government.The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas command center inside the building , which no longer serves as a hospital.

And the strike near Nuseirat in central Gaza killed eight people and wounded more than 15, according to officials at Al-Awda Hospital.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said militants fired five projectiles into Israel from northern Gaza for the second time in two days, adding that two were intercepted and the rest likely landed in open areas , as the Israeli military increased operations there.

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