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Middle East Weekly Round Up For April 20-26 2007
BBSNews 2007-04-25 - Listed below are IRIN stories carried from the Middle East between April 20th and April 26th.
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| Marwa, an eleven year old from Aita Shaab,in hospital being treated for injuries stemming from a cluster bomblet that exploded whilst she and her cousins were playing with it.[Date picture taken: 08/20/2006]
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IRAQ: "Last chance" for gov't to restore order: While the Iraqi government has dismissed a recent UN human rights report exposing the failures of the US-backed Baghdad security plan, local analysts agree with its findings and say authorities should adopt immediate measures to protect the population.
IRAQ: Decline in municipal services boosts violence and disease: As violence continues to plague Iraq's capital, Baghdad, the city's infrastructure continues to deteriorate, causing more violence, health hazards and misery for its seven million inhabitants.
IRAQ: Foreign workers lured to work in Iraq: NGOs have warned of increasing numbers of foreign workers being mislead to work in Iraq for little or no pay and at great risk to their lives. Many were destined to work in Gulf countries or other Middle Eastern countries but were deceived by employers organising their travel arrangements.
IRAQ: Yazidi minority demands protection after killings: Members of the Yazidi religious minority have asked the Iraqi government and international NGOs to protect them after gunmen on Sunday killed 23 Yazidis in Mosul, northern Iraq.
IRAQ: Walls will increase violence, specialists say: Baghdad specialists and citizens have hit out against the US strategy of building walls around Sunni districts that are surrounded by Shia areas. They say such barriers would worsen the lives of thousands of Iraqis and would increase violence.
IRAQ: Emergency services lack capacity: Last Wednesday's four attacks in Baghdad, in which more than 200 people died, have highlighted how overstretched the country's emergency services are during major attacks, said doctors and emergency services workers.
IRAQ: MMR vaccination campaign aims to reach 3.9 million children: Despite serious ongoing violence in Iraq, the government and international aid agencies started a major immunisation drive on Sunday to avert an outbreak of measles.
IRAQ: Militants force Palestinians to leave Anbar: Palestinians living in Iraq's Anbar province have come under increasing pressure from militants to leave or be killed, NGOs and Palestinians say.
Palestinians in the capital, Baghdad, have long been threatened by armed groups and harassed by authorities but threats to them in other provinces are a new development, aid workers say. Sunni-dominated Anbar used to protect Palestinians, who are predominantly Sunni too, but times have changed.
ISRAEL-LEBANON: UN envoy asks for records of cluster bomb strikes: A UN envoy has asked Israel to hand over detailed electronic records of its cluster bomb strikes on southern Lebanon last summer to help munitions-clearing teams with their task.
ISRAEL-OPT: UN child rights expert criticises Palestinians and Israel: Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, talked to children in the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and the Israeli town of Sderot, which has been battered by missiles fired from the nearby Gaza Strip.
LEBANON: Cash-strapped Palestinians see livelihoods decimated by security crisis: In 12 years of selling household goods to Lebanese and Palestinian customers, Khaled Saadi says he has never seen the market place in Nahr al-Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, as quiet as it is today.
"This used to be a key shopping market for all of north Lebanon. I used to sell around US $4,000-worth of goods every day," said the Palestinian refugee who is a father of six.
LEBANON-SYRIA: Families of missing detainees in Syrian prisons demand action: Lebanese activists are calling on the United Nations and the Lebanese government to increase pressure on Damascus to release final details of the whereabouts and fate of more than 600 Lebanese missing in Syrian jails since the 1970s.
As a sit-in protest in front of UN House in Beirut by the families of the missing detainees enters its third year, activists are calling on the UN to consider the missing prisoner cases as part of the implementation of a series of Security Council resolutions that have demanded Syria respect Lebanon's sovereignty.
YEMEN: Government to close gun markets: A decision by the Yemeni government to close all arms markets and outlets selling weapons in the country could help limit tribal conflicts and reduce crime, analysts say, particularly at a time when a confrontation between government forces and al-Houthi followers in northern Yemen has escalated.
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