CNN — A newborn baby died from the cold in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, a health official said 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 week, at least four infants have died of hypothermia from low temperatures and a lack of access to warmth while living in tents, Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, the head of pediatrics and obstetrics at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, said on Thursday. Among them were a three-day-old and a one-month-old who also died in Al-Mawasi, he said.

  • Flying Squid
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    -119 hours ago

    There are absolutely lies. You have lied more than once. You claimed I said Egypt was responsible. I did not. You said it again after I told you I did not say Egypt was responsible. You then claimed I said they should have let women and children out. I did not.

    I said Egypt was culpable, which is not the same as responsible, and I said that they should have let pregnant women (and children) out, not all women.

    Stop lying about what I said and maybe we can discuss this. I doubt you will though. I doubt you’ll even acknowledge that you lied about what I said. Please do surprise me.

    • @IndustryStandardOP
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      318 hours ago

      Complicity is a higher form of responsibility. When someone drowns you can be indirectly responsible to save them. But when you are complicit in drowning someone you are directly responsible for their death.

      Similarly you should be glad I used a lesser term of “responsible” than the extreme accusation of complicity you used. Resorting to semantical discussions will not save your non sequitur blaming Egypt.

      Your arguments about pregnant women are all invalid and appeal to some cherry picked feel good emotion while ignoring non pregnant women and men suffering from the same genocide. Once again, field hospitals and medics are waiting right outside the border which Israel now fully cut off from Egypt.

      The only complicity Egypt has is not fighting Israel for violating the agreement on the Rafah border.

      • Flying Squid
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        018 hours ago

        As I thought, you wouldn’t bother owning up to the fact that you lied about what I said directly back to me. And yet you think I’ll discuss this with you anyway. Is there any reason I shouldn’t just give up, report you for trolling and walk away at this point?