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| Iraq |
| Mortar fire forces thousands of civilians to flee liberated eastern Mosul |
| 2017-02-06 |
| [RUDAW.NET] Despite Iraqi government proclamations of eastern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... being fully liberated, many areas remain unsafe, as residents of Mosul have continued to leave the eastern side the city in recent days because of shelling from ISIS-controlled western Mosul. More than 1,340 IDPs have "fled primarily from north and central neighbourhoods of east Mosul which have been under fire from mortars launched from the west bank," the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) reported Wednesday in its weekly report. "Hundreds of families have fled their homes in northeastern Mosul," Iraqi Police Brigadier General Omran Mohammed told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. The agency also reported Mohammed as saying that over the past 72 hours [ISIS] turbans had launched numerous rocket barrages at the city’s eastern districts. Despite the attacks, about 1,800 internally displaced persons (IDPs) left UNHCR camps and returned to neighborhoods in and around east Mosul in the past week. Displacement is expected to accelerate when operations to retake western Mosul intensify. "New arrivals to Nargizilia camp from western Mosul reported having left their homes as a result of shelling, shooting, incidents of gangs taking over houses, serious food shortages, as well as lack of medical care and basic services," UNHCR wrote in its weekly report. |
| Posted by:Fred |