Inside a darkened operating theatre in Gaza’s largest hospital complex, staff swaddled dozens of tiny premature babies seven or eight to a bed, in a desperate effort to keep the infants warm – and alive. With no oxygen supplies or power for incubators, nurses attempted to provide what little care they could for 39 babies who had been transferred from the neonatal unit following a strike on Dar al-Shifa’s intensive care unit.
“The neonatal unit is not connected to the main surgical units; it was dangerous to go from the main building to get the babies,” said
