Humanitarian Disaster in Fallujah. Anti-ISIL drive displaces 30,000 more Iraqis

More than 30,000 Iraqis have been displaced and hundreds of troops killed amid an army military offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Fallujah in Anbar province.

Three days of fighting has left more than 30,000 people displaced from the city, in addition to the more than 32,000 who were already uprooted from Fallujah since the outset of the army offensive, the Norwegian Refugee Council said in a statement on Sunday.

"This comes after months of besiegement," Karl Schembri of the NRC told Al Jazeera, explaining that the city was already enduring difficult humanitarian conditions.

"They have been eating rotten dates and animal feed - and drinking from the river, which is undrinkable."...
 [aljazeera.com]
19/6/16
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