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As fighting intensifies in western Mosul thousands of civilians continue to flee to safer areas already liberated by the army. From there they are taken to refugee camps in the Nineveh plains.
Wadi Hajar is one such neighborhood and there are many children among the fleeing. They are hungry and malnourished.
Camp officials say the IDPs are in dire conditions as they have not brought anything with them except the clothes on their backs.
More than 57,000 people had fled western Mosul since the start of the third and current phase of the offensive began three weeks ago, Iraq’s minister for migration and displaced Darbaz Mohammad said, adding that since the beginning of the Mosul offensive the number of the displaced has passed a quarter of a million.
Wadi Hajar is one such neighborhood and there are many children among the fleeing. They are hungry and malnourished.
On Sunday alone 2,000 fled from the city of Mosul into the Kurdistan Region's Chamakor Camp on Khazir Front as Iraqi troops and ISIS militants engaged in some of the heaviest fighting.
Camp officials say the IDPs are in dire conditions as they have not brought anything with them except the clothes on their backs.
The number of Mosul IDPs is steadily on the rise.
More than 57,000 people had fled western Mosul since the start of the third and current phase of the offensive began three weeks ago, Iraq’s minister for migration and displaced Darbaz Mohammad said, adding that since the beginning of the Mosul offensive the number of the displaced has passed a quarter of a million.
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