Palestinian children freeze to death amid Israeli carnage in Gaza

Israel has killed at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza and injured 137 across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, as the regime presses ahead with its air and artillery strikes across the blockaded territory. 

“Israeli forces killed 38 people and injured 137 others in three massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” Gaza Health Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

Local Palestinian media reports said Israeli airstrikes targeted different parts of Gaza including the al-Sabra neighborhood, leaving several civilians dead.

The Israeli artillery also shelled a number of areas across Gaza, causing an unknown number of deaths and injuries.

In addition, at least five journalists were killed in the regime’s bombing of a broadcast vehicle, belonging to al-Quds al-Youm Channel in front of al-Awda Hospital in the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza.

The Gaza-based channel called the strike a massacre and said in a statement on Telegram the five "were killed as they carried out their media and humanitarian duty".

The latest deaths bring to more than 200 the number of Palestinian journalists killed since the onset of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Iran and several other countries have strongly condemned the Israeli airstrike on journalists.

Foreign ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei said the strike is the latest example of war crimes by the Zionist entity.

Baghaei said journalists and media personnel working in conflict zones must be immune from any attack under international humanitarian law.

The spokesman described the killing of media workers as a way to stop raising awareness among global public opinion about the extent of crimes committed against the Palestinian people.

The Iranian diplomat warned that a lack of appropriate response from the international community in dealing with such crimes could seriously undermine the international norms and rules of engagement.

 Baghaei called on the International Court of Justice to add the new crime to the genocide case filed against the Israeli regime.

Growing number of babies freeze to death in Gaza

At least four Palestinian babies have died of hypothermia at the al-Mawasi refugee camp in southern Gaza in the last 72 hours, officials and local media said on Thursday.

The 3-week-old baby Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh was the fourth found unresponsive.

By the time doctors reached her, her lungs had deteriorated and she was declared dead from hypothermia.

"In the morning, when her mother was going to breastfeed her again, we found her blue, with blood coming from her mouth due to the cold," her father said in a video shared online, holding her in a white shroud with her purple lips visible against her pale face.

Media footage from a courtyard in al-Mawasi showed Sila’s small body wrapped in a white shroud, her 31-year-old father, Mahmoud al-Fasih, holding her. In another shot, a group of young Palestinian men and boys crouch by her grave.

“(Sila) died from the cold,” her mother, Nariman Al-Fasih, said. “I was warming her and holding her. But… (we) didn’t have extra clothes for me to warm this girl.” The video showed the baby’s face had turned blue.

Three other children have also died from cold temperatures and a lack of access to warm shelter in the area. 

Al-Mawasi, a coastal region west of Rafah, previously designated by Israel as a “humanitarian area,” has repeatedly come under Israeli attacks.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians have moved there in search of refuge, living for months in makeshift tents made of cloth and nylon.

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Children in Gaza are also dying of malnutrition amid Israel’s chokehold on aid and necessities. 

One more Israeli trooper killed in Gaza

According to Hebrew media reports, the soldier was killed in a 'security incident' in the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory as Palestinians put up stiff resistance against the occupation troops. 

The death brings to more than 800 the number of Israeli troopers confirmed dead since the regime began its onslaught on the Palestinian territory in October 2023.

Palestinian resistance groups, however, say the actual number is much higher. They say Israel undercounts its losses for fear of public anger.

Israel has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since early October last year despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

The second year of aggression in Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and institutions labeling the attacks and blocking of aid deliveries as a deliberate attempt to destroy a population.

Last month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former war minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.

The Israeli military campaign against Gaza began in October 2023. Since then, more than 45,400 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children.

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