Around 700,000 Iraqis still displaced: NRC

Monitoring Desk

BAGHDAD: The Norwegian Refugee Council on Sunday claimed that despite the recapturing the Mosul and surrounding areas in June from the terrorists, still around 700,000 still displaced.

It said that more than 673,000 Iraqis fled from Mosul and others areas after government forces took action against them to take back the area from the area and after one year of battle in the area, the residents of area were remain displaced and unable to go back to their destroyed neighborhoods.

Humanitarian group added that more than half of them may have lost their official civil documents — from birth certificates to property deeds which will make rebuilding their lives even harder.

NRC demanded from the international community to assist the displaced Iraqis and pressurized the government for the rehabilitation of these people.