DUBAI, 10 December (IRIN) - CONTENT:

IRAQ: Haytham Hussein, Iraq "I depend on the marshes to survive" IRAQ: Sectarian violence tears Baghdad into two parts

IRAQ: Najjet Muhammad, Iraq "I cannot stand the beatings any more" ISRAEL-OPT: Trapped between the lines ISRAEL-OPT: Israel denies Palestinian children are jailed illegally ISRAEL-OPT: Vital Gaza food conduit to open, Israel says occ. Palestinian terr.: No friends, few drugs and little expertise for AIDS patients MIDDLE EAST: Ignorance still rife about HIV/AIDS UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: US $4,000 a month, and not even a roof over their heads YEMEN: Fate of 122 Ethiopian migrants unknown YEMEN: Afrah Ahmed, Yemen "I don't know where the suffering ends"

IRAQ: Haytham Hussein, Iraq "I depend on the marshes to survive"

When former president Saddam Hussein blocked the flow of the Tigris River in the south of Iraq in revenge for an uprising in 1991 by Iraq's southern Shias, the marshlands, and the livelihood they provided to thousands of families, quickly dried up.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56625 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ

IRAQ: Sectarian violence tears Baghdad into two parts

For decades, Iraq's six million-strong capital was a city where people mixed freely and did not care whether their neighbour was a Sunni or a Shi'ite Muslim.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56617 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ

IRAQ: Najjet Muhammad, Iraq "I cannot stand the beatings any more"

Iraqi women have been increasingly subjected to violence, rape, death and restriction of movement since a deterioration of security followed the US-led invasion of late 2003, according to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), an international women's rights NGO.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56633 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=IRAQ

ISRAEL-OPT: Trapped between the lines

Israel began building a 703 km-long barrier through the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories in 2002. Much of it is an electric fence but in heavily populated areas it becomes an eight-metre high concrete wall.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56608 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=ISRAEL-OPT

ISRAEL-OPT: Israel denies Palestinian children are jailed illegally

Palestinian Layth Ghalib Bedwan, 14, was arrested and detained by the Israeli authorities on 28 August 2006. Since then, his family has waited anxiously for him to return home.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56626 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=ISRAEL-OPT

ISRAEL-OPT: Vital Gaza food conduit to open, Israel says

An important commercial crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip could be re-opened next week, Israeli officials told IRIN, allowing vital food supplies into Gaza.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56637 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=ISRAEL-OPT

occ. Palestinian terr.: No friends, few drugs and little expertise for AIDS patients

The manner in which 14-year-old Mahmoud (not his real name) caught the HIV virus was unusual - but the subsequent reaction of Palestinian society was all too predictable.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56635 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=OPT

MIDDLE EAST: Ignorance still rife about HIV/AIDS

Specialists dealing with HIV/AIDS in the Middle East have said their work has been hampered by the lack of reliable statistics. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for example, there is a paucity of information and statistics about the numbers of people living with HIV/AIDS.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56588 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=MIDDLE%20EAST

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: US $4,000 a month, and not even a roof over their heads

For a rent of US $4,000 a month, the residents of a house in the Diafa neighbourhood on Dubai's coastal strip might have expected a decent roof over their heads.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56619 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=UNITED_ARAB_EMIRATES

YEMEN: Fate of 122 Ethiopian migrants unknown

The fate of 122 Ethiopian migrants who were recently deported from Yemen is unknown. Having arrived illegally by boat from Somalia, Yemeni authorities arrested and detained the group before later deporting them.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56607 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=YEMEN

YEMEN: Afrah Ahmed, Yemen "I don't know where the suffering ends"

Afrah Ahmed, 19, arrived in Yemen last month hoping to find a better life and an income to support her five little brothers and sisters and her sick, elderly mother who live in eastern Ethiopia.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56647 and SelectRegion=Middle_East and SelectCountry=YEMEN

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