Iraq: Iraqi Red Crescent and Red Cross help refugees in Tal-Afar

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220224/112687481742.htm

ICRC News n°05/70 - Iraq: Iraqi Red Crescent Society and ICRC help displaced families in Tal-Afar

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Switzerland
Website: http://www.icrc.org

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) estimates at around 5,000 the number of families from Tal-Afar in northern Iraq that have had to flee their homes and take refuge in surrounding towns and villages following the escalation of violence in the city. While some are staying with friends or relatives, others are living in abandoned villages or small camps, with no access to such basic items as food, water or bedding. The IRCS has set up camps around Tal-Afar to host displaced families.

The ICRC has supplied the IRCS’s Mosul branch with 5,000 individual food baskets, 1,000 jerrycans, 1,000 buckets, 1,000 blankets, 100 tents, 600 kerosene stoves and 600 hygiene kits. In addition, the ICRC has supplied 50 stretchers to the IRCS and 50 to the Directorate of Health.

Since the start of the military operation in Tal-Afar in July, the ICRC has been providing 900 families with 180,000 litres of drinking water a day.

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1. Red Cross deserve good press for all they do around the world. Red

Crescent too I think.

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3. why do you say "I think"?

they're sister organizations, and perform the same services

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4. See - i knew very little but I suspected Red Crescent was the equivalent.

[MisterP]

5. there also was, interestingly, another sister under the red lion and sun

flag, which was used in Iran until the Revolution

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2. These 5000 Iraqi families hate us for our freedoms n/t