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UNICEF seeks $26 million to ease Palestinians' plight (AFP)
Filed: June 5th 2007: World

Palestinian children look towards the mountain fortress of Herodium, near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The United Nations children's agency says it needs 25.8 million dollars (19.1 million euros) to meet the immediate needs of Palestinian women and children battered by poverty, unrest and forty years of occupation.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - The United Nations children's agency on Tuesday said it needs 25.8 million dollars (19.1 million euros) to meet the immediate needs of Palestinian women and children battered by poverty, unrest and forty years of occupation.

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