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Gaza's Children Suffering Malnutrition Due to Collective Punishment

Due to World's Shameful Silence | 22.05.2008 02:18 | Anti-racism | World

Malnutrition in kids and its consequences, along with the consequences of water-borne illnesses, courtesy of a water system made unusable due to lack of fuel, were the known potential outcomes of Israel's siege of Gaza.

So were the rockets these War Crimes provoked.

Now, the Extremists in the Knesset are attempting to use the rockets its illegal policies provoked as a way to reject peace.

Specialists: Gaza children suffer malnutrition due to the siege
Palestinian Information Center
May 20, 2008

GAZA, (PIC)-- Specialists in child rights and health care stated Tuesday that there is a large percentage of Palestinian children in the impoverished Gaza Strip who suffer from anemia and malnutrition in addition to psychological disorders, calling on health institutions to work as much as possible on reducing the death rates and illnesses among children resulting from the Israeli siege.

During a workshop entitled "The siege and its impacts on the health of children in the Gaza Strip", Hind Faris, the coordinator of child program in the Dhameer foundation for human rights, said that the children in Palestine constitute a high percentage, the thing which made the foundation interested in this category especially after noticing an increase in the diseases among children resulting from malnutrition.

For his part, Dr. Younis Awadallah, the director of the child file in the health ministry, warned that there is a high neonatal death rate which is apt to increase in light of the suffocating Israeli siege.

Dr. Awadallah also pointed out that the lack of fuel led to the shutdown of water pumps which provide potable water, thus reflecting negatively on the health of Gaza children, adding that the Israeli siege and incursions also have psychological impacts on children who live everyday in fear.

For his part, Pierre Clackwin, the head of the UNRWA health program, said that the agency is obliged to enforce children's rights enshrined in international laws, adding that the Palestinian children need more services in order to protect their health.

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