Human rights officials in Gaza are warning that the 10-week-old Israeli siege has created widespread suffering and mass despair. Journalist Patrick Cockburn writes in the Independent of London: “Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation… A whole society is being destroyed.” The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees has announced it has increased the amount of food aid to refugees in Gaza for the first time in five years. Israel continues to carry out military attacks in Gaza and the West Bank. On Sunday, an Israeli tank shell killed a 14-year-old boy in the town of Rafah. A 19-year-old relative of the boy was also injured. Meanwhile in the West Bank town of Jenin, undercover Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man earlier today.