A group of 28 premature babies evacuated from Gaza’s biggest hospital were taken into Egypt for urgent treatment. The newborns had been in north Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, where several others died after their incubators were knocked out amid a collapse of medical services during Israel’s military assault on Gaza City.
Israeli forces seized Shifa last week to search for what they said was a Hamas tunnel network built underneath. Hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people left Shifa over the weekend, with doctors saying they were ejected by troops and Israel saying the departures were voluntary.
All of the evacuated babies were “fighting serious infections,” a WHO spokesperson said. Eight infants have died since doctors at Shifa originally raised an international alarm this month of about 39 premature babies at risk from a lack of infection control, clean water and medicines in the neo-natal ward.
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