The UN children’s agency said on Sunday that More than 13 thousand children died in the Gaza Strip. as a result of the Israeli offensive, adding that many suffer from severe malnutrition and “don’t even have the strength to cry.”

“Thousands more are injured or we can’t even determine where they are. They may become trapped under the rubble (…) We have not seen this level of infant mortality in almost any other conflict in the world,” said the executive director UNICEFKatherine Russell, on “Facing the nation” from CBS News.

I was in wards with children suffering from severe anemic exhaustion; there was absolute silence in the entire ward. Because children, babies (…) don’t even have the strength to cry.

Russell said there were “serious bureaucratic problems” in getting aid and assistance trucks into Gaza.

International criticism of Israel has increased due to the death toll in the war. hunger crisis in Gaza and accusations of blocking aid supplies to the enclave.

He Israeli military attack on the Gaza StripHamas-ruled Palestine has displaced almost its entire population of 2.3 million, caused a famine crisis, wiped out much of the enclave and more than 31,000 people diedThis was reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health.