When Aisha was born on November 28 in the Gaza Strip, “the elements were already against her”, écrit The Washington Post.
His house: “a tent assembled from pieces of worn fabric”, planted in a makeshift camp “unsanitary and overcrowded” in the so-called humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi, in the south of the Palestinian enclave. And she was born while “winter was just beginning”.
The little one only lived three weeks. She lost her life on December 20 “malnutrition and hypothermia”. The night before, “temperatures have dropped”. Aïcha was dead in the morning, her body “transformed into a piece of ice”, his grieving father explained.
Since the start of winter, at least seven children – who were less than 1 month old – have died due to the cold. It is “the tragedy of the children of Gaza in the winter of death”, writes a Gazan journalist on the Lebanese site drawer, which tells the terrible story of these newborns.
A new “deadly” winter
“Winter in Gaza is proving deadly and will only get worse” because the vast majority of the nearly two million displaced people – more than 90% of Gaza’s population – “were forced to live in tents or shelters […] without it
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