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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.