It is headline news when coalition troops are injured or killed in Iraq but little mention is made of the millions of Iraqi children suffering from the ravages of war and even less is heard of the aid agencies' efforts to relieve them.
There are no clear figures yet on the numbers of children injured or killed in the war, not least because many are still falling victim to disease while others are being maimed by unexploded ordnance such as landmines and abandoned stockpiles of live ammunition.
'Children are still dying,' says Ian Lethbridge, emergency co-ordinator for Feed The Children, who visited Iraq in July. 'They are dying mostly now from waterborne diseases: typhoid and diarrhoea.
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