[and a war with Iraq -- leading to full Israeli mobilisation -- will undoubtedly make things worse]
October 12/13
Financial Times
UN plea for West Bank aid
By David Buchan and David Gardner
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With Israeli army curfews over the past two yars hampering food distribution and shopping, malnourishment among Palestinians is now on a par with the crisis in Africa, he [Peter Hansen, head of UNRWA, the UN Relief Works Agency] said.
Medical specialists from Johns Hopkins University in the US have classified 13.2 per cent of Palestinian children in Gaza as suffering from chronic malnutrition and 22.5 per cent suffering from acute malnutrition. These proportions are higher than in Zimbabwe and the same as in Congo.
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