Children in Gaza are so malnourished they don't have the strength to cry, says the chief of the United Nation's agency for children.
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell has told CBS News over 13,000 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel's assault on Gaza, which is now in its sixth month.
"We haven't seen that rate of death among children in almost any other conflict in the world, it's really shocking. Thousands more have been injured or we can't even determine where they are. They may be stuck under rubble. Thousands more have lost one or both parents. Some of these children, you've seen them on the news, they're just by themselves managing their younger siblings: it's a horrifying situation."
In northern Gaza, one in three children under the age of two is already suffering from acute malnutrition.
Ms Russell says the stunting it causes is already apparent, and it will affect them their entire lifetime - if they survive.
"I've been in wards of children who are suffering from severe anaemic malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely quiet. Because the children, the babies, don't even have the energy to cry."
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