The innocent victims of war-torn Middle east countries
21 March 2017 10:45 AM IST21 March 2017 10:45 AM IST
Middle east countires, such as Iraq and Syria are completely devastated with the conflicts, where in future is at stake of children.
A body lies in a blanket at the site of a mass grave containing some two dozen people, many of them children, in an area recently re-taken from Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq.- A Yemeni girl awaits humanitarian aid supplies given by the Russian humanitarian relief mission in a camp on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa.
- Displaced children evacuate a neighbourhood in West Mosul. Nearly six million children now depend on humanitarian assistance in the conflict, more than 12 times the number five years ago.
- 12/12 Iraqis, displaced children from Mosul, smile as they are photographed at the Hammam al-Alil camp for the internally displaced. Unicef spokeswoman Juliette Touma warned the more than 2.3 million children forced out of school by the conflict will become a “lost generation†unless they can resume their education.
- Relatives mourn over the body on an Iraqi child, killed in an airstrike targetting Islamic State (IS) group jihadists, West Mosul. According to a Unicef report, with at least 652 children killed in 2016 a 20% increase on the year before and 850 children recruited to fight in the conflict, nearly three times the 331 enlisted in 2015.
- Displaced residents of western Mosul evacuate their neighbourhood , as Iraqi forces continue to advance in the embattled city combatting Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.
- An Iraqi girl, displaced from Mosul, carries food rations as she sits near a tent at the Hammam al-Alil camp for the internally displaced, south of Mosul.
- An Iraqi girl, displaced from Mosul, hugs her toy at the Hammam al-Alil camp for the internally displaced, south of Mosul, during an offensive by security forces to retake the western parts of the city from Islamic State (IS) group fighters.
A body lies in a blanket at the site of a mass grave containing some two dozen people, many of them children, in an area recently re-taken from Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq.
Middle east countires, such as Iraq and Syria are completely devastated with the conflicts, where in future is at stake of children.
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