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   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)   
      
      
   https://ca.yahoo.com/news/news/unicef-says-over-13-000-184819482.html   
      
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