Iraq: Red Crescent provides relief to families fleeing Mosul

An Iraqi Red Crescent volunteer with some of the children who have escaped Mosul for the safety of a camp near Erbil. The Kahzer camp, established to accommodate people displaced by the fighting, is big enough for some 6,000 families. Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers are working in the camp, providing much needed food, relief supplies and psychosocial support. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Safin Ahmed / Iraqi Red Crescent Society)

Families who have been able to flee Mosul and surrounding towns are starting to reach camps that have been established in beyond the reach of the fighting. Many arrive with only the clothes they are wearing, receiving much needed food and relief supplies from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society and other humanitarian agencies working in the camps.

At Dibagah camp, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society works with its partners to try to provide assistance to people who desperately need it. As fighting in and around Mosul intensifies, Red Crescent teams are preparing for the need to provide assistance to up to a million people. This is in addition to the more than 3.2 million people in the country who are already displaced (Photo: Stephen Ryan / IFRC)

At Dibagah camp, Iraqi Red Crescent Society works with its partners to try to provide assistance to people who desperately need it. As fighting in and around Mosul intensifies, Iraqi Red Crescent Societies teams are preparing for the need to provide assistance to up to a million people. This is in addition to the more than 3.2 million people in the country who are already displaced (Photo: Stephen Ryan / IFRC)

Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers at work in the Khazer camp, where they are providing food, relief supplies and psychosocial support to families who have fled Mosul and surrounding towns. The camp can accommodate some 6,000 families, or 30,000 people. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Safin Ahmed / Iraqi Red Crescent Society)

Families who have fled the fighting in Mosul and surrounding towns have found safety in the Khazer camp near Erbil. Almost empty at the moment with some 250 families, the camp can accommodate 6000 families, or 30,000 people. Some one million people are still trapped in Mosul. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Joe Cropp / IFRC)

Iraqi Red Crescent Society volunteers provide psychosocial support to people who have fled Mosul and surrounding towns to the safety of a camp near Erbil. The Khazer camp, established to accommodate people displaced by the fighting, is big enough for some 6,000 families. Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers are working in the camp, providing much needed food and relief supplies. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Safin Ahmed / Iraqi Red Crescent Society)

An Iraqi Red Crescent volunteer with one of the children who has escaped Mosul for the safety of a camp near Erbil. The Kahzer camp, established to accommodate people displaced by the fighting, is big enough for some 6,000 families. Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers are working in the camp, providing much needed food, relief supplies and psychosocial support. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Safin Ahmed / Iraqi Red Crescent Society)

An Iraqi Red Crescent volunteer with one of the children who has escaped Mosul for the safety of a camp near Erbil. The Kahzer camp, established to accomodate people displaced by the fighting, is big enough for some 6,000 families. Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers are working in the camp, providing much needed food, relief supplies and psychosocial support. Iraqi Red Crescent Society teams on the ground in northern Iraq are assisting families and individuals who have fled fighting in and around Mosul (Photo: Safin Ahmed / Iraqi Red Crescent Society)