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A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of war huddle in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives.

She was nine years old and had suffered a serious leg injury; collateral damage from an explosion in Gaza. Unable to walk, the child was literally carried through conflict by her exhausted mother. The family spent the last few months as refugees in Egypt and the week before Christmas she was medically evacuated to Ireland.

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers yesterday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war monitor said.