Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – With a pale face and unrelenting tears, Eman Abu al-Khair sits inside her tent, clutching a small bag of her infant’s clothes. Her newborn had died of hypothermia the day before.The devastated mother, 34-years-old, still cannot believe she lost her baby, Mohammed, alive for just 14 days. Amid the devastation left by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, she simply wasn’t able to keep him warm enough.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“I can still hear his tiny cries in my ears,” Eman tells Al Jazeera, the pain visible on her face. “I sleep and drift off, unable to believe that his crying and waking me at night will never happen again.”The family’s tragedy began late on the night of December 13 in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, where they had moved to after being displaced from their home in the east of Khan Younis. Mother Eman Abu Al-Khair and her two-year-old daughter Mona checking baby Mohammed’s clothes bag after his death [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera]Eman put her baby to sleep, then woke later to check on him and found him in an alarming condition.Temperatures had dropped, and without proper shelter or clothing for a newborn, there was no protection for Mohammed.“His body was cold as ice. His hands and feet were frozen, his face stiff and yellowish, and he was barely breathing,” she recalls.“I woke my husband immediately so we could take him to the hospital, but he couldn’t find any means of transportation to …
