Israeli human rights group says two premature babies died after Gaza hospital lost power

An Israeli human rights group, citing doctors in Gaza, said two premature babies have died at Al-Shifa Hospital after Israeli strikes cut power and generator fuel ran out. 

"Two premature infants have died, and there is a real risk to the lives of 37 other premature infants. The Hospital is besieged, with no option to bring in the corpses and injured people sprawled outside. There is no movement in or out of the Hospital," Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on X. 

The group said hundreds of sick and wounded people are trapped inside the hospital without treatment or means of escape as Israeli forces press in. Israel has said Hamas has an underground complex beneath the hospital where they plan terror attacks and store weapons and supplies for war. 

"The picture we are now seeing at Shifa is no longer of a humanitarian catastrophe – it is a collective death sentence," the Israeli doctors' group said, demanding an immediate cease-fire.