The children of Falluja
November 12 2009: Revealed, the huge rise in children born with deformities in Falluja, Iraq, since the bitter battle for the city in 2004
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A sick Iraqi child at Falluja general hospital. Doctors report a recent spike in numbers of children with early life cancers
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The father of Zahra Muhammad, four, points out the child's six-fingered hand. Doctors in Iraq’s third-largest city are dealing with up to a 15-fold rise in chronic deformities in infants
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Mariam Yasir, six, and her mother at the Iraqi Handicapped Organisation in Falluja, west of Baghdad..
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A sick Iraqi child at Falluja General Hospital
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An Iraqi policeman at a house damaged in the US battle for Falluja in 2004
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Inas Hamed, 12, at her house in Falluja
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Dr Aiman Qeis treats a sick child at Falluja General Hospital.
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Six-year-old Mariam Yasir cries as her mother carries her home.
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The deformed feet of four-year-old Zahra Muhammad
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Hussein Matrud, the head of the Iraqi handicapped organisation, with sick children at his Falluja office
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