German envoy: Reports of Gazan babies dying of hypothermia should spark ‘demand for end of war’

By Lazar Berman

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26 December 2024, 4:32 pm

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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

This handout photograph taken on February 18, 2024 by the World Health Organization shows a convoy of ambulances during a WHO, UN humanitarian agency OCHA and Palestinian Red Crescent mission to evacuate patients from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. (Christopher Black/WHO/AFP)

After a Gazan doctor reports that three babies under his care died of hypothermia during the past 48 hours, Germany’s ambassador to Israel says that if the reports “don’t move us, then we don’t understand the birth in a manger in Bethlehem or the light of Hanukkah.”

“They should move us to demand an end of the war and Hamas terror, winter supplies for the Gazans and a full hostage release,” writes Steffen Seibert.

The reports on the Gaza deaths were made by the director of the children’s ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.