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Babies are #NotATarget. 

Children are #NotATarget. 

Civilians are #NotATarget. 

Hospitals are #NotATarget. 

Health care workers are #NotATarget. 

Schools are #NotATarget. 

Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

 

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Poets are #NotATarget.

Journalists are #NotATarget. 

Teachers are #NotATarget.

   

CSM ‘Cold is death.’ For Gazans in flimsy tents, a winter of sorrow and loss.

Hadeel al-Kafarna, who has been living in a tent since the start of the war, holds her 6-week-old son, Yousuf, in her arms in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Jan. 5, 2025. “Most of the time, we huddle together” for warmth, she says.

By Ghada Abdulfattah Contributor 

Jan. 07, 2025, 4:59 p.m. ET | Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip 

 

December began as a month of joy for Yahya al-Batran and his wife, Nora, when they welcomed twin sons into the world: Jomaa and Ali.

 

“They were small, sweet, and beautiful,” Mr. Batran recalls.

 

The month ended in tragedy. Three weeks later, they buried Jomaa, who died from hypothermia Dec. 29 in their makeshift tent on the Deir al-Balah coast, in central Gaza. His twin, Ali, is fighting for his life in the intensive care unit.

 

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For tens of thousands of Palestinian families forced from their homes by 15 months of war, the temporary shelters they have constructed are no match for Gaza’s winter winds and rain. Supplies are expensive. Infants are especially vulnerable.

 

“I saw them dying. I cried; I wept. I felt helpless and hopeless,” Ms. Batran says while waiting Sunday for Ali to recover at the ICU at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “I am so tired.”

 

After escaping an Israeli siege and shelling in northern Gaza, the family was felled by an unexpected danger: the cold.

 

“Imagine watching your child die in front of you and feeling utterly powerless,” says Mr. Batran from his tent in western Deir al-Balah. “What can I do? Cold is death.”

 

For tens of thousands of displaced Gaza Palestinians living in flimsy, temporary shelters, it has been a winter of sorrow and hardship.

 

Their deteriorating makeshift tents – patchworks of blankets, clothes, cardboard, and whatever materials displaced families can find – are woefully inadequate to confront the winter’s rains and temperatures below 46 degrees Fahrenheit at night.,,, READ MORE  

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0107/gaza-winter-cold-rain-illness

 

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Babies are dying in Gaza; we must do something to stop it | PennLive letters - "Let us return to decency and compassion as a nation." Ann Marie Judson

 

Babies are dying in Gaza due to extremely cold weather. Families whose homes have been bombed are now living in tents. Food, water and medicine are scarce. The United Nations warned in November that 1.95 million people were at risk of famine. ... READ MORE  https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025/01/babies-are-dying-in-gaza-we-must-do-something-to-stop-it-pennlive-letters.html

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Israeli forces are broadcasting fake sounds of women screaming and babies crying to lure Palestinians out and kill them, a rights monitor has found.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli army is broadcasting sounds of cries to lure Palestinians out before targeting them [Getty]

The Israeli army is broadcasting recordings of women screaming and babies crying to lure Palestinians out into the streets in Gaza and kill them, a rights monitor has reported.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based group, said the technique was being used to intimidate and target Palestinian civilians in the central Gaza Strip's Nuseirat refugee camp, which is currently under assault by Israel.

Testimonies from residents who spoke to the team confirmed hearing sounds of crying and screams broadcast late at night on Sunday and Monday.

When the residents went out to investigate and try to help they were targeted by Israeli quadcopter drones and gunfire, the report said.

The alarming technique was used with the intent of luring the camp’s residents out into the streets, where they could be more easily targeted by Israeli snipers, Euro-Med said.

Maha Hussaini, the strategy director for Euro-Med in Gaza, told The New Arab that some of the sounds are often broadcast late at night when the streets are empty.

"This technique and noise is primarily used to bring people out to target them, because at night no one is out, especially following the random attacks and bombings on the Nuseirat Camp," she said.

"The Israeli forces find no one to target, so has resorted to this trick to deceive people... READ MORE     https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-broadcasts-baby-sounds-lure-palestinians-gaza 

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