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Article: UN FAO Warns: Food Insecurity and Malnutrition on Rise Among Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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- April 15, 2002
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Byline: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
WASHINGTON, April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise among Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the UN 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 impoverished and extremely food insecure."
According to the alert, malnutrition is on the increase, ...