US officials: displaced from Mosul so far below expectations


Reuters Alaa Al-Marjani

Posted: 11/7/2016 | 22:23 are GMT |Arab World News

US officials on Monday November 7, reported that the number of people displaced by the attack on the city of Mosul to restore the "Daesh" There is still so far below expectations, They confirmed the possibility of a rally.

A US official, said that 33 thousand people left their homes to escape the fighting, since the start of the Iraqi forces attack three weeks ago to restore Mosul.

The official added that the lower than expected that the Iraqi forces are not yet up to the most densely populated places in the city.

And besieging the clashes in Mosul, Iraq's second city, at least a million people, with can not give specific figures after more than two years on the control of the militants, "Daesh" on them.

And monitored by the United Nations and the Iraqi and US governments and non-governmental organizations has great potential to help the displaced, humanitarian agencies as they prepare for the exodus of 700 thousand people.

She says those agencies that some of the displaced people of Mosul will go to the relatives of them will not be in need of the camps.

Source: AFP

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