buildings during a fragile ceasefire, Palestinian medics said Tuesday. The coastal territory experiences cold, wet winters, with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius (50 F) at night and storms blowing in from the Mediterranean Sea. The last few days have been especially cold. Yusuf al-Shinbari woke up in his family’s tent just after midnight on Tuesday to find that his two-month-old daughter, Sham, was cold to the touch. He could feel no heartbeat. “Yesterday, I was playing with her,” he said. “I was happy with her. She was a beautiful child, like the moon.” Dr Ahmed al-Farah, the head of the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where her body was taken, said she did not have any illness but died from severe cold because she was in a tent. He said the hospital treated another two infants for frostbite.