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United Nations agencies and other aid organisations decried Sunday the devastating toll wreaked by six months of war in Gaza, warning that the situation was “beyond catastrophic”. “Six months is an awful milestone,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said, warning that “humanity has been all but abandoned”. The UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths insisted Saturday that there needed to be “a reckoning for this betrayal of humanity”. UNICEF chief Catherine Russell pointed out that more than 13,000 children were reportedly among those killed. “Homes, sc…

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