Two babies freeze to death in IDP camps in Syria’s Idlib

Fatima’s father Mohamad Al-Hassan sits by her grave near Laith displacement camp, where his family has lived for seven years [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Two children died overnight, including a seven-day-old baby, in tented displacement camps in Syria’s Idlib province due to severe cold weather, drawing attention to the dire humanitarian condition in the region.

“When I touched her, she felt like ice,” Mohamad Al-Hassan told Al Jazeera. His seven-day-old daughter Fatima passed away overnight at the Al Rahman hospital in Idlib, which is home to millions of Syrians who have fled the decade-old war.