The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has accused the United States of being complicit in war crimes, after it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in the territory says more than seventeen thousand Palestinian civilians have been killed since October the seventh.

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(Photo: Wounded children at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis today. Credit: Reuters)