<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A newborn baby has died from the cold in a tent encampment in Al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza, a health official says, highlighting the stark challenges to survival faced by Palestinian children displaced from their homes amid Israel's ongoing assault on the strip.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.</span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-to-hobart-yacht-race-two-people-dead-in-accidents/ed33c03e-219c-4dd3-8c89-d403db30a11a"><strong><span>Investigation promised after Sydney to Hobart race deaths overnight</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>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 yesterday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Among them were a three-day-old and a one-month-old who also died in Al-Mawasi, he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Staff in the neonatal ICU see at least five cases of hypothermia per day, added Al-Farra. </span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/four-babies-die-from-hypothermia-in-gaza--israels-war-pushes-palestinians-into-tents/f9ec873b-5c85-4475-82af-61b5a38c976d" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Reduced breastfeeding and limited availability of infant formula has severely compounded the risk of hypothermia among babies, he told CNN.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Meanwhile, health workers are struggling to treat young patients due to shortages of electricity, diesel and other fuel.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"This is one of the disastrous results of this criminal war," Al-Farra said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah, previously designated by Israel as a "humanitarian area," has repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bombo-beach-man-drowns-after-being-caught-in-rip-at-nsw-beach/d5152800-ef1e-432c-a4e8-33179c2d382a"><strong><span>Man drowns after getting caught in rip at NSW beach</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Thousands of displaced Palestinians have moved there in search of refuge, living for months in makeshift tents made of cloth and nylon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>CNN footage from a courtyard in Al-Mawasi showed Sela's small body wrapped in a white shroud, her 31-year-old father, Mahmoud Al-Fasih, holding her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In another shot, a group of young Palestinian men and boys crouch by her grave.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"(Sela) died from the cold," her mother, Nariman Al-Fasih, told CNN on Wednesday. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I was warming her and holding her.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"But… (we) didn't have extra clothes for me to warm this girl." </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The video showed the three-week-old baby's face had turned blue.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/boxing-day-tsunami-20-year-anniversary-joe-giardina-survival-tale/e413d7e3-d448-4d86-a97e-ab3c51ebda94"><strong><span>Joe lost his 'joyful' son in the 2004 tsunami. Then he fought for victims</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Israel's assault, launched after the Hamas-led October 7 attack, has gutted Gaza's once-lively neighborhoods, erased entire families, and spawned a humanitarian crisis of starvation, displacement and disease.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed and 107,000 people injured, the health ministry there reported on Monday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><strong><span>'War on children'</span></strong></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Human rights advocates have warned that Palestinian children are bearing the brunt of Israel's bombardment and siege.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More than 17,600 children have been killed since the war started, Al-Bursh said on Wednesday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>One child in Gaza is killed every hour, the chief of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said on Tuesday, citing UN data.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As many as 17,000 children have been left unaccompanied or separated from their parents and caregivers, the International Rescue Committee reported in October.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: '</span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victorian-fires-grampians-national-park-bushfire-continues-to-grow-amid-fresh-emergency-warnings/55afbe0f-d71d-4257-908c-c8afdca6ae74" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Challenging time': Grampians National Park bushfire continues to grow</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Others struggle to find enough food, water and warmth, as Israel's siege has drained supplies.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Children are unable to receive adequate care in the medical system, which has been paralysed by Israel's attacks, doctors have told CNN.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Just 20 per cent of neonatal care units are operational in the Gaza Strip, according to Al-Farra.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Premature babies are dying due to lack of medical supplies including ventilators, while doctors are forced to triage cases to save children's lives, he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The UN's children's agency, UNICEF, warned that many displaced children in Gaza are wearing little more than the clothes on their backs – after many were forced to flee Israel's bombardment in summer clothes, earlier this year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/cost-of-living-which-supermarket-items-have-gone-up-in-price-the-most/020d3c94-65f3-46df-9e47-d21d19b5d3c9"><strong><span>Which supermarket items have gone up in price the most</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"For over 14 months, children have been at the sharp edge of this nightmare… In Gaza the reality for over a million children is fear, utter deprivation and unimaginable suffering," Rosalia Bollen, a UNICEF communications specialist, said in a statement on December 20.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The war on children in Gaza stands as a stark reminder of our collective responsibility. A generation of children is enduring the brutal violation of their rights and the destruction of their futures."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the deaths of the three infants in Al-Mawasi.</span></div></div>