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1. UNICEF Says Over 13,000 Children Killed in Gaza in Israel Offensive
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UNICEF SAYS OVER 13,000 CHILDREN KILLED IN GAZA IN ISRAEL OFFENSIVE
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March 17, 2024
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March 17, 2024, at 2:48 p.m.
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UNICEF Says Over 13,000 Children Killed in Gaza in Israel Offensive
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FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity
kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and the
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza
Strip, March 5, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000
children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, adding many kids were
suffering from severe malnutrition and did not "even have the energy to cry."
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell did not provide a source for the
child fatality figure during an interview with CBS News.
When asked if Russell was referring to the agency's own estimate or was basing
the figure on reporting from authorities in Hamas-governed Gaza, a UNICEF
spokesperson pointed to a press statement by the U.N. children's agency that
attributed the figure to Gaza's health ministry.
"Thousands more have been injured or we can't even determine where they are.
They may be stuck under rubble ... We haven't seen that rate of death among
children in almost any other conflict in the world," Russell told CBS News'
"Face the Nation" program.
"I've been in wards of children who are suffering from severe anemia
malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely quiet. Because the children, the
babies ... don't even have the energy to cry."
Russell said there were "very great bureaucratic challenges" moving trucks into
Gaza for aid and assistance.
A March 14 infographic from OCHA, the U.N. humanitarian office, cites the Gaza
government media office as saying that over 13,000 children and at least 9,000
women have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7. U.N. agencies have relied on Gaza
authorities for casualty information during the war.
International criticism has mounted on Israel due to the death toll of the war,
the starvation crisis in Gaza, and allegations of blocking aid deliveries into
the enclave.
A U.N. expert said earlier this month that Israel was destroying Gaza's food
system as part of a broader "starvation campaign." Israel rejected the
accusation.
Israel's military assault on Gaza has displaced nearly its entire 2.3
million-person population, caused a starvation crisis, flattened most of the
enclave, and killed over 31,000 people, according to Gaza's health ministry. It
has also led to accusations of genocide being probed in the World Court.
Israel denies the genocide charges and says it is acting in self defense after
the Oct. 7 attack on Israel from Hamas that killed some 1,200, according to
Israeli tallies, and took scores of hostages.
One in three children under age 2 in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished
and famine is looming, the main U.N. agency operating in the Palestinian enclave
said on Saturday.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Chris Reese, Rami Ayyub
and Deepa Babington)
Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.
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