Israel-Palestine conflict and the Middle East
December 26, 2024
09:13
At least ten people, including five journalists, have been killed during Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the last few hours. And at least three newborns have died in recent days from hypothermia in tent cities.
At just three weeks old one newborn died of cold in the Gaza Strip. She froze to death on Christmas night while in the tent cities of the refugee camps near Khan Younis. The news was given by the little girl’s father, Mahmoud al-Faseeh, who at theAssociated Press also reported the deaths of two more young children in the past three weeks. All children died of cold in the tent cities of the Strip.
Three children froze to death in Gaza
Mahmoud al-Faseeh told the AP that he saw his newborn daughter motionless and purple-faced, that he wrapped her in a blanket and rushed her to a field hospital where doctors tried to resuscitate her, but her lungs they had already deteriorated. AP has photos of little Sila with bruised skin and purple lips.
It was Ahmed al-Farra, director of the pediatric department of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, to confirm that the child died of hypothermia and said two other babies, one 3 days old and the other a month old, had been taken to hospital in the last 48 hours after freezing to death.
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Israeli raid on Gaza: 5 journalists killed
Last night meanwhile was another night of Israeli raid on Gaza and victims. At least 10 people died, including 5 journalists, reporters for the Palestinian television station Al-Quds Today. As the broadcaster confirms, the journalists were killed at dawn during an Israeli attack in the center of the Strip.
The channel said it was mourning its “five martyred journalists Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Mohammed Al-Lada’a, who were killed in a Zionist attack on a vehicle external transmission”. They died – according to the broadcaster – in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nusseirat “while carrying out their journalistic and humanitarian duty”.
Some eyewitnesses reported that a missile launched from an Israeli plane It directly hit their vehicle parked in front of Al-Awda Hospital.
Israel’s version
According to the Israeli army, the raid targeted Hamas terrorists who were ready to “plan and execute an explosive drone attack against IDF troops in the imminent time frame” and who, prior to the raid, “were taken numerous measures to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.”
Source: www.fanpage.it
