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Sewing baby onesies to respond to the number of infants that were dying from hypothermia
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"“Please don’t forget us.” “Please don’t stop.” Amidst the texts of joy and celebration, these are also the messages we are receiving today. While aid trucks are already starting to enter the Gaza Strip, we must remember that even 600 proposed trucks per day will not reach everyone, will not eliminate hunger overnight, and will not provide everything needed to reverse the suffering. This is why we won’t stop. Not even for a moment. One very talented resident in The Refaat Alareer Camp had an idea to make warm baby onesies to respond to the number of infants that were dying from hypothermia. With the help of two women in the camp, this small team sewed 109 onesies for ages 0-3 out of old blankets bought at the market, washed, and repurposed. We created packages that includes informative brochure written by Dr. Azal Ali (@azalazal23) on methods to protect babies from freezing to death, the onesie, diapers, a hat, gloves and socks. So far 33 were distributed in Khan Younis and 28 in Nuseirat where we also conducted educational workshops, and we gave an additional 4 packages away to mothers with newborns. Let’s show Gaza that we will not forget them. We will not leave them. We will do even more to assist. We have plans, we’ve been waiting for the day when we can start imagining not being needed in the same way. We will transition eventually into sustainable projects that we are so excited about. But we will still need you. We will need to do this together. Thank you for continuing to contribute ❤️🙏🏼" - Source
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Archivist Notes: Gaza babies die from hypothermia
In two week, height infants have died due to the bitter cold wave sweeping through the displacement areas of Palestinians, where they were forcibly displaced to regions described by the Israeli occupation forces as “temporary humanitarian zones.”
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Most of these areas are open spaces stretching to the sea shores,
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Dozens of tents have been blown away or flooded by the strong winds and rain, leaving families struggling to repair the damage, patching torn sheets of plastic and piling up sand to hold back the water.
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The real-feel temperature at dawn and early morning hours drops to 3°C (actual temperature is 8°C).
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According to Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, the head of pediatrics and obstetrics at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, staff in the neonatal ICU see at least five cases of hypothermia per day. Reduced breastfeeding and limited availability of infant formula has severely compounded the risk of hypothermia among babies, while the health workers are struggling to treat young patients due to shortages of electricity, diesel and other fuel.
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According to UNICEF, 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.
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The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, recently said that Gaza babies “are freezing to death due to cold weather and a lack of shelter.” “Blankets, mattresses, and other winter supplies have been stuck in the region for months waiting for approval to get into Gaza,” he said in a recent message on X.
The infants who died due to the cold are:
- Aisha Al-Qassas, 21 days old
- Ali Issam Saqr, 23 days old
- Ali Hossam Azzam, 4 days old
- Sila Mahmoud Al-Faseeh, 14 days old
- Jumua Al-Batran, one-month old
- Ali Al-Batran, one-month old
- Sanad Wisam Kamel Ayad, 4 months old
- Ali Youssef Ahmed Kloub, 35-day-old
December 22: Aisha Sufyan Al-Qassas, a 20-day-old, born in a displacement tent, she lacked protection from the harsh weather and, despite being taken to the hospital, received no proper treatment to be saved.
December 25: Sila Mahmoud Al-Faseeh “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.
December 28: One-month-old Palestinian baby, Jumua al-Batran, tragically passed away from the freezing weather in central Gaza.
December 30: One-month-old Ali Al-Batran (twin brother of Jumua) died at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, quoting medical sources who attributed his death to plummeting temperatures.
December 31: Sanad Wisam Kamel Ayad died from hypothermia at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza
January 5 : 35 day-old Yousef Ahmad Kaloob died from hypothermia in his family dispalcement tent in Mawasi Khan Younis
The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.