Not less than 50,000 displaced Iraqi families in the Kirkuk area are
being neglected by international aid groups irrespective of sheltering
in areas accessible to humanitarian organizations, medical charity
Medecines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Friday. Reuters report:
Only a handful of local organizations are providing
essential items including food, hygiene kits and blankets, but the aid
is sporadic and does not cover even the basic needs of the uprooted
families, said MSF.
“So far the majority of the funds and attention of the international
community (have) focused on Iraqi Kurdistan,” Fabio Forgione, MSF’s head
of mission in Iraq, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
“Having worked in Kirkuk now for years and having increased our
activities in the last few months, we do see the possibility for other
international organizations to intervene.”
More than two million people have been displaced by an Islamic State offensive in Iraq this year and almost half of them have sought refuge in Kurdistan.
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