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Joe Biden has announced that the US military will establish an emergency port in Gaza to increase humanitarian aid into the strip, after aid agencies warned that children were dying from starvation. At least 16 children have died from malnutrition and dehydration in the past week, according to local health officials, mainly in the north of Gaza which is harder for aid agencies to reach (a 14-truck food convoy from the UN's World Food Programme was looted on Tuesday after it was delayed at an Israeli checkpoint and then rerouted). One in six children under two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, according to the WHO, triple the levels seen in the south, where there is a bit more humanitarian access. The port could take some weeks to set up, as pressure grows for a ceasefire before the holy month of Ramadan begins next week.