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.

In a blistering cold snap that swept through the region, the infant girl, named Sham, had frozen to death, her uncle said. She was the latest of six newborns to die in the Gaza Strip in recent days because of the cold,

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.