Baby dies of hypothermia, as Israeli attacks across Gaza surge

A baby has died of hypothermia in southern Gaza, amid plummeting temperatures and continuing Israeli restrictions on aid, AFP reported, citing medical sources.

Nine-month-old Kinan Ahmed Raqiq was found dead by his father as they sheltered in a tent in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis overnight.

Raqiq’s father Ahmed, stood weeping outside Nasser Hospital, as he held his son’s shrouded body.

“I woke up only to see his skin had turned blue so I rushed him to Nasser Hospital, but he had already died from hypothermia and frozen to death,” he told AFP.

“I am in complete shock. I found myself holding my son wrapped in a burial shroud.”