Born two months premature as crisis raged in Gaza, Palestinian baby Yehia Hamuda was evacuated to southern Gaza after Israeli forces raided the hospital where he was being cared for in the north, Reuters reports.

Stuck in the north, his parents have not seen him since then.

His mother Sondos and father Zakaria scrolled through photographs of Yehia, now five-months-old, on a mobile phone at their home in Jabalia in northern Gaza, severed from the south by Israeli military checkpoints.

Sondos said it was too dangerous to make the 30-km (20-mile) journey from Jabalia to Rafah.

“There are tanks and bulldozers. My husband and I cannot go,” she said. “They would kill us. I am afraid my son would end up living alone.” Yehia was born on Nov 27, seven weeks into the conflict