A longer piece about the fate of the prem babies - a third one has died 
Ruth Michaelson reports for the Guardian:
I just spoke to Dr Marwan Abu Sada, head of surgery at the besieged Dar al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Since Friday, Israeli forces including tanks and snipers have surrounded the hospital. Yesterday, there were multiple accounts of people being shot as they attempted to flee, and there are dead and injured people still laying on the ground at the hospital entrance.
In the neonatal intensive care unit, three out of 39 premature babies have died and the lives of the remaining infants are hanging in the balance.
“We lost the life of one baby today, yesterday we lost two, and I am afraid that all of the babies will lose their lives,” said Abu Sada.
After the bombardment of an extension to the intensive care unit, Abu Sada said that staff at al-Shifa moved the entire neonatal unit to an operating theatre previously used for cardiac patients and placed the babies in beds there, ten to a bed, in an attempt to make them comfortable despite the lack of temperature controlled required to keep them alive.
“The neonatal unit is not connected to the main surgical units within the al-Shifa medical complex, it was dangerous to go from the main building to get the babies,” he said. “We called the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Israelis just to ensure the passage of the babies from the neonatal ICU to the surgical area.”
“Where could we evacuate over 30 babies to?” he said, responding to demands from Israeli officials to evacuate patients from al-Shifa, which contains the largest neonatal unit in Gaza. Dar al-Shifa is Gaza’s largest and most well resourced hospital, and the cornerstone of its healthcare system.
“We no longer have any oxygen supplies, or even fuel to run a generator,” he said, referring to both the neonatal unit and to resources across the entire hospital.13m ago