Baby dies of hypothermia, as Israeli attacks across Gaza surge

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Baby dies of hypothermia, as Israeli attacks across Gaza surge Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 11/13/2026 - 14:15 As temperatures plummet amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid,…

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.”

Heavy rains have swept through Gaza, inundating thousands of tents where the majority of the enclave’s population are forced to shelter amid ongoing Israeli restrictions on aid entering the territory.

As temperatures plummeted on Thursday, Israeli attacks across Gaza surged, with health officials putting the total toll of people killed since dawn at 11.

The day before baby Raqiq’s death, two Israeli drones tore through that same hospital’s surgical department, killing six people, including a surgeon and a child and wounding around 30 others.

An AFP journalist who was at the scene reported that one of the building's exterior staircases had partially collapsed and that indoors an entire floor was damaged, with broken concrete from collapsed walls mixed with broken medical equipment.

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