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MIDDLE EAST: IRIN-ME Weekly round-up 116 for 2 March - 8 March 2007
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BBSNews 2007-03-12 - Listed below are IRIN stories carried from the Middle East between March 2nd and March 8th.
IRAQ: Malnutrition among under-fives: Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighbourhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists.
Sami Salah Al Din, Iraq "Instead of being thanked, we policemen are seen as bad people: Sami Salah Al Din is a 35-year-old Iraqi policeman. He used to work for the Ministry of Water Resources during the rule of former President Saddam Hussein but lost his job after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
IRAQ: Another million people could flee homes this year: The United Nations and international agencies have warned that if sectarian violence in Iraq does not abate, up to a million new people could become displaced in 2007, putting an increasing burden on the country's infrastructure and resources
IRAQ: Only reconciliation can stop sectarian strife: Despite a three-week-old Baghdad security plan that aims to ensure the country's security and stability, sectarian violence has shown no signs of abating and is likely to increase, analysts say.
IRAQ: Killings drive women to become suicide bombers : Um Abdallah, 41, has a difficult task ahead of her - she has to learn how to use a gun and begin preparing for a day she believes is going to be one of God's forgiveness and revenge against foreign forces occupying her country.
ISRAEL-OPT: Israeli and Palestinian women campaign together for peace: When veteran Israeli peace activist Lily Traubman fled to Israel from Chile in 1974, her socialist beliefs led her to move to a kibbutz - a collective farm - in northern Israel.
LEBANON: UNIFIL wins hearts and minds in south, but questions remain over security: Nepalese soldiers are teaching computing skills to the women of Houla, a Shia Muslim village 2km from Lebanon's southern border with Israel.
Muhammad Jaber, Lebanon "My sheep were my life" : Muhammad Zein el Abidyn Jaber is a 72-year-old farmer who lives with his family of five in the small Lebanese village of Maroun El Ras, on the border with Israel. During the July-August 2006 war between Israel and the armed wing of the political party Hezbollah, he fled his town and left his sheep and cattle behind.
OPT: 'Femicide' on the rise in conflict zone: Three Palestinian women were shot dead in the northern Gaza Strip last month - rumours say it had to do with 'honour'.
YEMEN: 70 families live in fear of their local Sheikh: More than 400 residents of Raash village, in the southern Ibb province, said they fear for their lives after returning home on Monday. They said militant followers of their Sheikh (traditional leader) have been intimidating them with weapons.
YEMEN: Eight women die giving birth every day: A radical proposal by Yemen's Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood (SCMC) to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 could see the country's high maternal mortality rate drop drastically, its supporters say.
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