New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- As December's chill settled over Gaza, the family's nylon tent offered little refuge. So each night, Eseid Abdeen covered his frail newborn son with four blankets, periodically shining a flashlight on the baby's eyes to confirm he was all right.

Until Wednesday night, when 29-day-old Saeed, his tiny body wracked by the cold, did not respond.

The infant, who had been born prematurely and very underweight, became the second baby to die of hypothermia in recent days at Nasser Hospital, doctors said Thursday. They warned there could soon be others if conditions in the tent camps housing thousands of Palestinians are not improved.

"I always feared for him and tried to keep him warm. But it is very cold," the child's mo...