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Well, meanwhile, these premature babies who have been moved from the Al-Shifah Hospital in Northern Georgia, which has been the scene of much fighting, have gone to the Emirati Hospital in Rafa in the south of Georgia. These pictures have emerged, showing the children being cared for. Doctors say 31 have survived, but eight have died. They say a lack of medical provision made caring for them in Al-Shifah, very difficult. Teams are now working to stabilize their condition. Here's the director general of the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza.

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We found that even the water with which their baby formula was made was polluted. It wasn't sanitized because sanitization was not available, and that caused vomiting, diarrhea, and weight loss. Instead of gaining weight, they lost weight, and that caused them severe harm. Some of them had sepsis and severe inflammation. We began a quick resuscitation process for them as soon as they arrived at the hospital.

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Also had low temperatures. They hadn't been kept warm. We usually assign one nurse to every two or three babies, but the medical staff was greatly reduced due to the siege around the Al-Shifah Hospital and the staff's inability to change shifts. There were severe shortages in medicine, like antibiotics, other solutions, and food, and that was banned by the occupying powers from reaching the Al-Shifah medical complex.

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Took hours of work and coordination. The medical staff, that's one doctor and the nurses who were with them, finally arrived. The final number who came to us was 31 babies that had originally been 39, but eight babies died, the final two of which died in the Al-Shif, a medical complex. Some of the babies are in critical condition. One of them is on a ventilator. There are some who are critical, others in medium conditions, some who are stable, whose health condition allows them to be fed directly with baby formula or through tubes.