OSLO, June 16, (APP): Fallujah Crisis: Iraqi forces and ISIS fight leaves worst humanitarian ‘disaster’
Under fire and nearing starvation, thousands of Iraqi civilians trapped in the militants bastion of Fallujah face a "humanitarian disaster", a prominent Norwegian NGO said Thursday.
Tens of thousands of others who have managed to flee the city as Iraqi forces press a bid to dislodge the Islamic State group also find little relief on their way out.
"We have a humanitarian disaster inside Fallujah and another unfolding disaster in the camps," the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said in a statement.
"Thousands fleeing the cross-fire after months of besiegement and near starvation deserve relief and care, but our relief supplies will soon be exhausted," NRC chief Jan Egeland said.
Fallujah, which lies west of Baghdad, is one of the last two major Iraqi cities IS controls, the other being Mosul.