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Poll: 10% of Palestinian children have lasting malnutrition effects
By The Associated Press

About 10 percent of Palestinian children suffer permanent effects from malnutrition, according to a survey published Wednesday, a result of widespread poverty in the West Bank and Gaza.

The root cause is poverty, according to Khaled Abu Khaled, who directed the study for the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. He said the numbers are up slightly over the past two years.

"One obvious effect of malnutrition is stunted growth among children, which has increased about three percent in the last two years," he said.
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"This is a chronic chronic. Even with interventions, the rates don't go down fast," he said.

Other surveys have shown that about half of the Palestinians are living in poverty.

Six years of violence between Palestinians and Israelis have crippled economic growth in the West Bank and Gaza. A year of international aid sanctions following an election victory by the Islamic Hamas and its takeover of the Palestinian government has intensified the hardships.

The findings were based on a survey conducted in November and December covering 13,238 residents of the West Bank and Gaza, according to a statement. It found that 13.2 percent of the children of Gaza suffer stunted growth, compared to 7.9 percent in the West Bank.

While incidents of stunted growth were up slightly, Abu Khaled noted a decrease in cases of extremely low body weight - another common symptom of acute malnutrition. He said the children of northern Gaza were most likely to suffer stunted growth as well as low birth weight.

The survey showed that 17 percent of the Palestinian population is made up of children under the age of five, and 46 percent are under 15.
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  1.   I feel bad for innocent children..... 21:05  |  Sherman 11/04/07
  2.   Will this heart-rending statistic teach compassion to Zionists? 21:06  |  Clickfool 11/04/07
  3.   GERMAN CHILDREN FACED THE SAME IN 1945 21:09  |  Yishai Kohen 11/04/07
  4.   Israel`s fault ? 21:18  |  judah 11/04/07
  5.   They can thank their leadership. If the acquisitions of 21:22  |  Anat 11/04/07
  6.   malnutrition 21:49  |  akiva P 11/04/07
  7.   The solution to the problem is very easy 21:52  |  Yonatan 11/04/07
  8.   Mission Accomplished 22:05  |  Joe 11/04/07
  9.   Don`t forget to send a copy of the report to Suha 22:19  |  Chick Corea 11/04/07
  10.   Israel is responsible 22:20  |  Anthony 11/04/07
  11.   zero percent malnutrition in the leadership 22:20  |  Sam 11/04/07
  12.   Better then 22:22  |  Fred 11/04/07
  13.   #3 Akiva P 22:26  |  alan 11/04/07
  14.   #1Judah 22:30  |  alan 11/04/07
  15.   That`s a lower rate than every other place in the Middle East 22:31  |  fuzz 11/04/07
  16.   #2 Anat 22:32  |  alan 11/04/07
  17.   Explosives have no nourishment 22:47  |  ottomatik 11/04/07
  18.   Antyony 22:47  |  eva 11/04/07
  19.   the money is there if hamas want to accept the conditions 22:50  |  zionist forever 11/04/07
  20.   Perhaps their leaders should feed them 22:51  |  Ari ben Yisrael 11/04/07
  21.   "Statistics" by PA propaganda bureau do not show malnutrition 22:59  |  Dr. L. Brnd 11/04/07
  22.   re: #5, Joe 23:12  |  Igor D. 11/04/07
  23.   re: 13 23:14  |  Igor D. 11/04/07
  24.   # 10 Alan 23:21  |  ChanahS 11/04/07
  25.   WE ALLOW IT 23:24  |  Cool B 11/04/07
  26.   Not bad only 10% malnourished that still leaves 90% OBESE 23:28  |  Marilyn 11/04/07
  27.   Please! Palestinians have allways been chronically underfed. 23:33  |  Jack 11/04/07
  28.   Hamas should stop buying arms 00:08  |  ScotGuy 12/04/07
  29.   #15 Fuzz 00:13  |  Chris Linthwaite 12/04/07
  30.   deliberate starvation a war crime 00:30  |  TimothyL 12/04/07
  31.   that is the responsibility therefore fault of the pal govt. 00:34  |  ralph 12/04/07
  32.   that is the responsibility therefore fault of the pal govt. 00:35  |  ralph 12/04/07
  33.   pal tactic blame everybody but take no responsibility themselvess 00:35  |  ralph 12/04/07
  34.   thats what citizens get when they vote for failed leaders 00:36  |  ralph 12/04/07
  35.   Sad they prefere to purchase weapons hate for their money 00:37  |  Johnny 12/04/07
  36.   they had a choice food or bombs/rockets/suicide they choose bombs 00:37  |  ralph 12/04/07
  37.   thats also democracy take responsibility for your vote and leader 00:37  |  ralph 12/04/07
  38.   nutrition & weapons. 01:14  |  curious 12/04/07
  39.   #2 Clickfool re; Children 01:27  |  * BEN JABO 12/04/07
  40.   #10 Anthony - The parents are buying guns instead of food 01:34  |  * BEN JABO 12/04/07
  41.   #36 Marilyn 01:36  |  * BEN JABO 12/04/07
  42.   Palestinian malnutrition 01:37  |  Michael Schmidt 12/04/07
  43.   #28 Chris Linthwaite-That makes it alright then does it? 02:17  |  * BEN JABO 12/04/07
  44.   NOW the World knows who the Guilty Parties are? 02:22  |  Al Walid 12/04/07
  45.   So where is all that aid money sent to the PA? 02:29  |  Robert 12/04/07
  46.   Arafat and the other Arab Countries 02:36  |  Robert 12/04/07
  47.   just goes to prove,you dont have to be very big to carry a 02:59  |  terrornator 12/04/07
  48.   ..and the Greenhouses? 03:00  |  R. Alkali 12/04/07
  49.   2 or 3 times more children are malnourished in Darfur, Egypt, 03:02  |  Chanan 12/04/07
  50.   to joe # 8,kids are starving because mommy and daddy only know 03:06  |  terrornator 12/04/07
  51.   This is the result of the mentality of a terrorist 03:14  |  TOMY 12/04/07
  52.   #13 alan, asking, what kind of gravy and from 03:22  |  TOMY 12/04/07
  53.   #14 alan, Do you think in other arab countries 03:26  |  TOMY 12/04/07
  54.   Palis do not care for children, virgins are much 03:38  |  TOMY 12/04/07
  55.   Israel`s barbaric economic stranglehold must be broken. 04:02  |  Timothy 12/04/07
  56.   Clickfool #2. The men who suppor the blockade are beyond hope. 04:25  |  Timothy 12/04/07
  57.   To those Israelis that still have a heart. 04:36  |  Timothy 12/04/07
  58.   Jews cannot have more heart for Arab kids than Arabs do ......... 07:12  |  Chanan 12/04/07
  59.   Arab countries boycott Israel for 60 years but Jewish kids don`t 07:41  |  Chanan 12/04/07
  60.   Our border with Egybt is oben but they refuse to allow food thru 07:47  |  Jalal 12/04/07
  61.   Starvation 14:28  |  Les Pauls 12/04/07
  62.   Chanan # 58. Let`s focus on getting the kids feed. 16:32  |  Timothy 12/04/07
  63.   #62 Timothy 17:30  |  * BEN JABO 12/04/07
  64.   wonderful news 23:14  |  joe smith 12/04/07
  65.   No problem paying for weapons and bombs!!! 23:35  |  Edward H 12/04/07
  66.   Funny how that is.. 00:01  |  Shoshana 13/04/07
  67.   #62 What a bunch of BS. 00:34  |  Edward H 13/04/07
  68.   BEN JABO, What you propose will harm children. 03:25  |  Timothy 13/04/07
  69.   PCBS 09:51  |  Nerys 13/04/07
  70.   Is this report 10:22  |  Nerys 13/04/07
  71.   check your facts 10:48  |  Nerys 13/04/07
  72.   Timothy 13:46  |  Nerys 13/04/07
  73.   Jalal~60 14:03  |  Nerys</