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Sat 11 Nov 2023 4:12 pm - Jerusalem Time

Calls for the Red Cross to take urgent action to save newborns in Gaza

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor urged the International Committee of the Red Cross to take urgent action to save the lives of newborns in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, in light of its exposure to power outages and intense Israeli attacks.


The Euro-Mediterranean Red Cross called on the Red Cross to urgently bring an electric generator and the necessary amounts of fuel to the neonatal ward in the Al-Shifa Complex in order to save their lives in light of the threat of death that threatens them.


Newborn babies and patients who need life support devices will begin to die within minutes due to the power outage, at a time when the Shifa Complex administration announced a complete power outage to the hospitals in the complex.


Doctors announced that a newborn child who was attached to the incubators had already died, and they warned of a similar fate threatening 39 other children in the coming hours if electricity was not provided to the section in which they were located.


The Euro-Med Monitor stressed that the Red Cross must leave the box of warnings and condemnations and take urgent practical action to save the lives of children and patients in the Gaza Strip in light of Israel's renunciation of its obligations to protect civilians and prohibit siege or targeting medical facilities.



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