WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United Nations has provided food aid to 100,000 Iraqis displaced by the conflict around the city of Mosul, the World Food Program said in a press release on Monday.
"We are providing food to people who need it regardless of whether they are in camps or have stayed in their homes or surrounding neighborhoods," the World Food Program’s Iraq Director Sally Haydock stated.
The agency explained it had enough rations to feed 2.1 million people around Mosul for three days, and enough to assist more than one million people across Iraq’s 18 governorates.
Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition against Daesh launched the operation to reclaim Mosul from the terror group, which overran the city in 2014.
Humanitarian organizations have warned that the offensive could displace 1.2-1.5 million people in and around Mosul.
