Iraqi children cannot find adequate food, medicine and even the toys to play with. The embargo has starved children to death and deprived them of their simplest rights. Nutritional status of children in Iraq continues to deteriorate due to lack of adequate food, medicine and even safe environment. The use of Depleted Uranium during aggression on Iraq has caused outbreak of new diseases and increased the incidence of leukemia, congenital deformities and hereditary diseases. The report mentioned that children between the age of 6-11 had left schools to get jobs to support their families financially.
Children cry play and suck their thumbs.
Then, there comes a time when they enter school, learn and fight to survive. Children want to shape their cultures, they actively shape the world around them and want to be accounted for. But the embargo makes this case different with the children of Iraq. Iraqi children die before they could open their eyes to see what is going on around them. Sanctions hurt newborns who have not even reached the age that enable them to understand the concept of death.