So many people in need that it is good to see that other countries are there trying to help.
More Israeli aid set to reach Kurdish Yazidi, Christian refugees of Islamic State
February 9, 2015 by Editorial Staff in Israel, Refugees
IsraAID workers distributing aid. Photo: Courtesy/IsraAID
IsraAID has already helped some 1,000 families forced from their homes by the Islamic State – but much more is still needed.
JERUSALEM, Israel,—An Israeli aid agency is set to up its deliveries of emergency supplies to Yazidi Kurds and Christian refugees of ISIS’s deadly military campaign in Iraq, as more evidence of the jihadist group’s atrocities begins to emerge.
More than 18,000 Yazidi and Christian refugees now live in makeshift camps in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, which is home to a total of around one million internally and externally displaced people. They are among more than 2.1 million people driven from their homes by ISIS since January 2014, bringing the total of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of the conflict to 5.2 million.
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http://ekurd.net/more-israeli-aid-set-to-reach-kurdish-yazidi-christian-refugees
More Israeli aid set to reach Kurdish Yazidi, Christian refugees of Islamic State
February 9, 2015 by Editorial Staff in Israel, Refugees
IsraAID workers distributing aid. Photo: Courtesy/IsraAID
IsraAID has already helped some 1,000 families forced from their homes by the Islamic State – but much more is still needed.
JERUSALEM, Israel,—An Israeli aid agency is set to up its deliveries of emergency supplies to Yazidi Kurds and Christian refugees of ISIS’s deadly military campaign in Iraq, as more evidence of the jihadist group’s atrocities begins to emerge.
More than 18,000 Yazidi and Christian refugees now live in makeshift camps in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, which is home to a total of around one million internally and externally displaced people. They are among more than 2.1 million people driven from their homes by ISIS since January 2014, bringing the total of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of the conflict to 5.2 million.
Continue reading at:
http://ekurd.net/more-israeli-aid-set-to-reach-kurdish-yazidi-christian-refugees
