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At least seven babies have died from the cold and lack of a roof over their heads in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has announced.
The war between Israel and the militant Hamas movement also means that up to 7,700 babies in the Gaza Strip cannot get the care they need.
This is what UNRWA writes on Sunday in a post on X.
At the end of December, the Palestinian news agency Wafa wrote that four babies had died of cold in the Gaza Strip.
About 15 months of war in the Gaza Strip has meant that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lost their homes.
Displaced residents live in tents that offer little protection from the cold and rain.
Temperatures have recently been below ten degrees Celsius.
The Israeli authority responsible for Palestinian affairs, Cogat, writes on X that it cooperates with international aid organizations to provide the internally displaced Palestinians with tents, blankets and warm clothing.
Israel is still attacking
On Sunday, Israel’s military announced that it had attacked over 100 “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip over the weekend.
According to the military, dozens of Hamas people were “eliminated”.
It comes in response to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip against Israel.
The Israeli offensive was launched in response to Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
That day, Palestinian militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages.
The war, which on the Israeli side has as its declared goal to eradicate Hamas, has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip to the ground.
Virtually the entire population has fled, and according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-controlled area, over 45,800 Palestinians have been killed in the last 15 months.
It is not possible to get the number verified from the other side. But according to the UN, the casualty figures reported by the Gaza Strip’s health authorities in previous armed conflicts between Hamas and Israel have turned out to be roughly correct.
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Source: politiken.dk
