10 November 2024
With Gaza’s health sector decimated, a combination of toxic gasses, stress and a lack of care is causing “staggering” rises in premature births and maternal and neonatal deaths. Read more about Israeli attacks leading to increase in birth defects
8 August 2011
A disturbing story is circulating on social networks and the media that a number of premature babies died in their incubators when Syrian forces cut off electricity to hospitals during their assault on the city of Hama. Evidence suggests it is a cruel hoax, and the pictures of the “dead babies” widely circulated online are false. Read more about How CNN helped spread a hoax about Syrian babies dying in incubators