Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
As a United Nations agency halted aid deliveries in northern Gaza , where acute malnourishment is rampant among children, citing a 'breakdown of social order' fueled by Israel 's bombardment of and blockade on the enclave, the United States for a third time on Tuesday vetoed a cease-fire resolution at the U.N. Security Council—saying it was an inopportune time to demand that Israel end its massacre of Palestinians . U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
'We want to feed our children just like everyone else,' one Palestinian man told Al Jazeera, 'so we went to get some flour. But then we were shot at, shells were fired, and tanks advanced at us.' The WFP and the U.N. Children's Fund said Monday that starvation is particularly severe in northern Gaza, with 1 in 6 children under age two—more than 15%—acutely malnourished.
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