Why battered Gaza’s premature babies face a struggle beyond survival

LONDON: For any neonatal intensive care physician, the sight of three or more premature babies sharing a single incubator is cause enough for alarm. There is, without doubt, a shortage of incubators, and many other things, in Gaza’s hospitals. But behind the heartbreaking photographs emerging this week from the front line of Gaza’s battered healthcare system’s fight to save the most innocent victims of Israel’s war since October 2023 lies a broader crisis, UNICEF’s Toby Fricker said. Fricker, th