A Nine Month Old Baby Dies of Hypothermia in a Displacement Tent in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza, on November 12: His Father and a Doctor Confirm the Death to AFP, and the UN Says 26,000 Households Were Affected by Storms as of November 8
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — A nine month old baby died of hypothermia on Thursday, November 12, inside his family's displacement tent in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, his father and a doctor told AFP. The doctor, who saw the child and spoke on condition of anonymity, said nine month old Kinan Ahmed Raqiq died from hypothermia inside the tent.
Ahmed Raqiq, the baby's father, told AFP that Kinan died after cold temperatures hit Gaza overnight. He said he woke to see his son's skin had turned blue, rushed him to Nasser Hospital, but the baby had already died from hypothermia. Gaza's Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal separately confirmed the infant's death to AFP, after exposure to extreme cold.
Days of harsh weather and flooding had newly displaced thousands of Palestinians living in tents across the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that as of November 8, 26,000 households were affected by storms.
AFP noted that virtually the whole population of Gaza has been displaced at least once during three years of strikes.
Source: Agence France-Presse
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Photo: 图：加沙地带马瓦西地区流离失所者居住的帐篷区航拍（资料图，与本稿汗尤尼斯帐篷区同属加沙南部流离失所者聚居带）。图中是密布的流离失所者帐篷。作者与授权：Ashraf Amra，CC BY-SA 3.0 igo，维基共享资源。 / Photo: An aerial view of the Al-Mawasi area, where displaced Palestinians live in tents in the Gaza Strip. Wikimedia Commons (Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo).
