Uhm, panic, bombing, threat of being captured? Being invaded... again?

The mothers may not even have been alive and medical staff simply can't evacuate premature babies and all the ICU equipment needed to keep them alive.

This story is absolutely going to be used as "look how inhuman and barbarous these Palestinians are, good thing we're genociding them" and your comment is exactly what they're looking for.

But the reality is that if you shoot and bomb civilians, then threaten to bomb the hospital they're being treated at, this could happen anywhere in the world.

They weren't leaving babies to die and rot 6 months ago because they weren't being shelled and shot at and if they weren't being shelled and shot at now, they wouldn't have left those babies either.

@Sina no mother would, and under normal circumstances neither would medical staff. As the article states, staff were pleading for help.

These babies were in an Intensive Care unit. Most were premature babies who were supposed to be in incubators. They are vulnerable and need to be kept warm, may be tube fed or require oxygen. It's difficult for parents, who usually cannot be there all the time.

It is more likely that the mothers were unable to get to the ICU. We do not yet know how many died trying.