Adnan al-Qassas, 24, is grieving his baby daughter Aisha.
On the morning of 20 December, al-Qassas and his wife, Rana, woke to unimaginable horror.
“I woke up in a panic to the screams of my wife. Our little girl lay motionless, her face and lips blue. She looked like a piece of ice.”
Al-Qassas, who was displaced from the Sheikh Nasser area in eastern Khan Younis and now lives in a battered tent just a few meters from the seashore in al-Mawasi, rushed his daughter to Nasser Medical Complex only to learn that she had died hours earlier due to the severe cold.
Aisha is one of six babies to have died of hypothermia in Gaza since mid-December. ….more
