Article: Food insecurity, malnutrition on rise among palestinians in West Bank, Gaza strip.

M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 2002-UN: Food insecurity, malnutrition on rise among palestinians in West Bank, Gaza strip (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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ROME (FAO) -- Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise among Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today in a special alert. "The total blockade of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has paralyzed the Palestinian economy, which is so vulnerably dependent on Israel and already severely weakened by frequent border closures, to such an extent that it is now in a deep recession, with millions of people severely ...

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