Nine-Month-Old Baby Dies of Cold in Gaza
The death underscores Gaza’s shelter crisis, as UNICEF said 11 children died from hypothermia last winter and hundreds of thousands still live in tents.
- On Friday, The World Health Organization warned of surging respiratory illnesses in Gaza, with conditions expected to worsen after heavy rains flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians.
- The Israeli military's expansion of a demarcation established under October's US-brokered ceasefire forced people into crowded conditions, where 'the spread between humans of a virus is much more prone to spread,' WHO Representative DrReinhilde Van explained.
- Nearly 400,000 displaced people live in extremely high-risk flood areas, with respiratory infections 33,000 cases higher than last year and now comprising 11 per cent of all medical consultations.
- While most medicines arrive in Gaza, the WHO faces difficulty obtaining laboratory supplies vital for diagnosis, urging officials: 'let laboratory equipment enter Gaza today, so that we can avoid a public health disaster on top of a disaster.'
- Van warned that with winter not yet fully set in, 'it is shocking that just a few days of rain really showed us what the coming months will bring,' noting the worst health crisis is yet to come.
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Geneva: A nine-month-old baby died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip and joined the growing number of Palestinians who have lost their lives in tents, where refugees lack the means to cope with the fall in temperature, storms and floods that occurred in recent days, while the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of a dramatic increase in cases of respiratory diseases, with 33,000 more patients than at the same time in 2025.
The falling temperatures and storms of recent days have caused significant material damage and have left several dead in the Palestinian enclave, plunged into a serious humanitarian crisis following the offensive launched by Israel in 2023.
Palestinians displaced in a partially flooded tent camp in Gaza City REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas The World Health Organization warned on Friday (13) about the increase in respiratory diseases in Gaza, with a forecast of worsening after heavy rains having flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians. The numbers already show the pressure. Acute respiratory infections are 33,000 more cases than in the same period last year, said …
A nine-month-old baby died today, due to severe hypothermia, in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in the first case of cold during the current winter.
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