Two Palestinian babies die in Gaza freeze

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Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Two Palestinian babies have died due to cold weather in the Gaza Strip, an official said Saturday, as winter storms lashed the region.

A two-month-old girl from the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis died on Friday of "a pulmonary obstruction caused by the cold," health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

A one-month-old boy, also from Khan Yunis, died on Saturday, he said without giving further details.

Gaza's civil defence service said that dozens of homes in the coastal territory, already ravaged by last year's war with Israel, were flooded in the brutal storms that brought freezing rain and gale-force winds.

http://news.yahoo.com/two-palestinian-babies-die-gaza-freeze-102840144.html

Very depressing.