The BMJ Appeal 2023-24: Gaza’s mothers and babies need your help

This baby in an incubator at al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in the Gaza strip’s central city Deir al-Balah on 12 January faces the danger of death, like most premature babies in Gaza, who can’t get the health services they need because of power outages in hospitals caused by fuel shortages.

Just two months earlier 31 premature babies at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City were evacuated to a hospital in Rafah City in the south of the strip. The …