GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. children’s agency has evacuated two of 18 newborns from a North Gaza hospital to be reunited with their parents further south, it said on Friday.
Its attempt to move two of the babies was suspended on Thursday amid an ongoing Israeli military assault on the city, but the children have since been reunited with their parents.
“We had 18 babies in incubators at the beginning of week. Two got moved yesterday,” UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires told a Geneva press briefing, saying the others are waiting in incubators for Israeli security clearance.
“I hope this is just an example of what will come after the ceasefire is fully implemented,” he said.
Israeli troops began pulling back from some parts of Gaza on Friday under the terms of a ceasefire deal with Hamas.
(Reporting by Emma Farge and Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Friederike Heine)
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