A doctor, a lab technician and two maintenance workers will be among those killed as the fourth baby in three days to die of cold during Israel's genocide.
Israeli airstrikes have killed five workers at one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, the facility's director says, as another baby freezes to death in the a besieged and bombed Palestinian enclave.
Hussam Abu Safia, leader Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday said the “martyrs including a doctor. “
Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from central Gaza, said a laboratory technician and two maintenance workers were among those killed in the attack.
“We know that the hospital is one of the only medical facilities that is still working, and it is working with the lowest human resources and lack of medical supplies,” she said.
“Israeli forces have been attacking the area around the Kamal Adwan Hospital, sending quadcopters into the hospital and shooting Palestinians. “
The hospital has been inoperable after weeks of attacks almost every day. Israeli forces previously killed the hospital's ICU director, Dr Ahmed al-Kahlout, and wounded dozens of medical staff in attacks on and near the facility.
Khoudary said that Palestinian rescue workers could not reach the bodies of those killed in the hospital. “People cannot bury those Palestinians who are being killed every day by Israeli forces in northern Gaza,” she said.
Israel launched a major ground offensive in northern Gaza on October 5, saying it aimed to prevent the Palestinian group Hamas from regrouping.
Since then, not enough humanitarian aid, including food, medicine and fuel, has entered the area, leaving the remaining population close to famine.
The World Health Organization has described the situation at the Kamal Adwan Hospital as “horrendous” and said it was operating at a “minimum” level.
Another child freezes to death
Meanwhile, the fourth child has died because of extreme cold within 72 hours in Gaza, the Wafa news agency reported on Thursday.
Medical sources said the child died due to drop in temperature as the humanitarian conditions across the fort are dire.
“The tents don't protect against the cold, and it gets very cold at night with no way to keep warm,” said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, chief pediatrician at Nasser Hospital in Gaza's Khan Younis district. in southern Gaza.
In more than a year of Israeli attacks and lack of aid delivery, many families in Gaza have been left without adequate shelter and resources to cope with the changing weather.
Local health officials told Wafa that lack of food among mothers was contributing to an increase in health issues among children, putting further pressure on medical resources and emergency services.
Israel's bombing and ground offensive on Gaza has killed more than 45,300 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children. The offensive has also caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90 percent of Gaza's 2.3 million residents, often multiple times.
Hundreds of thousands of people are packed into tented camps on the coast as the cold, wet winter sets in. Aid groups have been struggling to deliver food and supplies and said there is a shortage of blankets, warm clothes and fuel.
