Babies in Gaza's neonatal intensive care units 'could die in minutes'

Babies in Gaza's neonatal intensive care units could die within minutes, if incubators lose power. 

"We call on everyone to send the necessary medical supplies for this critical department or else we face a huge catastrophe," Nasser Bulbul, a doctor at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told Reuters. 

"If the electricity is out, in these departments, where there are 55 babies, we will lose all those who need electricity within five minutes."

One baby at al-Shifa hospital lost 11 members of her family, including her mother in an Israeli bombing. Doctors are waiting for a relative to come forward and name the infant, according to Reuters.

"When the baby gets better we don't know who is going to take care of him after he became an orphan," a physician treating the baby said on Facebook.

There are 130 newborn babies in electric incubators in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry said.