Seven babies have died from hypothermia in Gaza since Sunday, according to health care officials in the strip, who warn there will be more such deaths unless more aid enters the enclave.

GAZA A one-and-a-half-month-old baby girl, Sila Abdel Qader, has died of hypothermia in Gaza City due to a harsh cold snap and Israel’s blocking of mobile shelters from entering the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

At least six Palestinian infants have reportedly died from hypothermia during a severe cold spell in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said. Dr Saeed Salah, medical director of the Friends of the Patient Charitable Hospital, said Tuesday that three newborns, aged between one and two days, died shortly after being admitted.