A Palestinian baby died from hypothermia on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, underscoring the grim humanitarian conditions in the territory as world leaders were gathering at a Swiss resort where US President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan is high on the agenda.
Shaza Abu Jarad’s family found the 3-month-old on Tuesday morning in their tent in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City.
“She was freezing, and dead,” the baby’s father, Mohamed Abu Jarad, who spoke by phone after a funeral, said. “She died from cold.”
The man, who worked in Israel before the war, lives with his wife and their seven other children in a makeshift tent after their house was destroyed during the war.
The family took the girl to the Al-Ahli hospital where a doctor pronounced her dead from hypothermia, said her uncle, Khalid Abu Jarad. Gaza’s Health Ministry confirmed that the baby died from hypothermia.
The family is among hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in tent camps and war-battered buildings in Gaza, which experiences cold, wet winters, with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) at night.