The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed on Sunday that 120 newborns placed in incubators are at risk due to the severe shortage of fuel needed to operate electricity generators in hospitals.

More than 1,750 children were killed out of 4,385 martyrs in the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

The Israeli bombing comes in response to an unprecedented attack in the history of the Hebrew state, carried out by the Hamas movement, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians.

After the attack, Israel tightened the siege originally imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2007, and prevented supplies of fuel, water, food, and water.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are suffering from a severe shortage of fuel, water and medicines.

UNICEF spokesman Jonathan Krekes told AFP, "We currently have 120 newborns in incubators, including 70 on ventilators. Of course, this makes us very concerned."

Children's and maternity departments in the Gaza Strip need energy as a primary source for treating children in incubators and helping them breathe to ensure their survival in light of their incomplete growth in the mother's womb.

The World Health Organization said Thursday that hospitals had run out of fuel to operate generators.

The international organization indicated that 1,000 dialysis cases in the Gaza Strip are also at risk if the generators stop working.

"death danger"

Twenty aid trucks crossed from Egypt into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, carrying food, water and medicine, but none of them carried fuel.

"Twenty trucks are a drop in the ocean of need right now in Gaza," said Michael Ryan, director of emergencies at the World Health Organization.

Officials confirm that the limited energy sources in the Gaza Strip are being preserved for use in operating generators for medical equipment.

"If infants are placed in incubators and connected to artificial respirators as is standard practice, the power outage makes us worry about their lives," the UNICEF spokesman said.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that the lives of 130 children were “at risk of death” due to running out of fuel.

According to the United Nations Population Fund, Gaza witnesses about 160 births every day, noting that there are 50,000 pregnant women in the Strip, which has a population of 2.4 million people.

Although Israel says that its raids target targets belonging to the Hamas movement, the percentage of children killed in Israeli bombing is very high.

The Israeli bombing also caused the death of entire families, in addition to pregnant women.

According to a doctor working at Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, an attempt took place last Thursday to save a fetus whose mother died in an Israeli bombing of the family home, while she was in the seventh month of pregnancy.

The doctor said that the baby was born dead. Hours earlier, eight children were killed while sleeping in a house in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.