DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has activated its emergency operations room at Doha headquarters to collect information about the conditions of displaced people in Iraq.
The move came in response to the alarming situation in Mosul, Nineveh, and the probable wave of displacement across the country due to the current military operations.
Real-time reports are received from QRCS’s mission in Iraq and its field groups, in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), QRCS said in a statement yesterday.
A relief campaign has been launched to help more than 120,000 Iraqis expected to flee Mosul over the coming few days. Also, an emergency appeal has been issued to raise QR15m ($4.1m) for a six-month intervention in shelter, relief items, water & sanitation, and health care. Several organisations have already reacted to the appeal, which warned against one of the world›s worst and most complicated humanitarian crises in 2016.
