IOM: Over 59,700 Iraqis displaced due to Mosul operations

One month into Mosul military operations, which began on 17 October, over 59,700 Iraqis are displaced from Mosul and adjacent districts as of 18 November, according to the International Organization for Migrantion (IOM)'s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Emergency Tracking.

As fighting is progressing inside the city limits of Mosul, more individuals have been identified from inside the sub-district of Mosul, the IOM said in a statement.

The majority of displaced are from Mosul district (87 percent, over 51,800 individuals), and the districts of Al-Hamdaniya (8 percent, over 4,800 individuals), Tilkaif (4 percent, over 2,600 individuals) and Telefar (less than 1 percent, 60 individuals), the statement added.

The vast majority of the displaced are currently in Ninewa governorate (98 percent or over 58,400) – mostly in Al-Hamdaniya district (38,300) and in Mosul district (nearly 16,000), the statement reported.

The displaced population has increased by over 5,400 in the past five days., it added.

According to DTM Emergency Tracking, of those recently displaced by Mosul operations, over three quarters (78 percent; 46,300 individuals) are in formal camps; 14 percent (8,000 individuals) are in private settings (rented houses, hotels, with host families); 8 percent (4,800 individuals) are in critical shelter arrangements (informal settlements, religious buildings, schools, abandoned buildings); and less than 1 percent (300 individuals) are passing through screening sites, IOM said.

"Work has progressed along an accelerated time schedule to prepare emergency sites to accommodate displaced people. Thanks to the support of the MoMD, as well as the excellent cooperation of our partners, we are confident that the sites will be ready to respond to the needs of the newly displaced," IOM Iraq Chief of Mission Thomas Lothar Weiss said.

Additional support for the emergency sites has been provided to IOM through financial and in-kind contributions from the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), the European Union Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO), the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Governments of Germany, Canada and New Zealand, he added.

Iraqis displaced by Mosul military operations are in addition to the over 3.1 million Iraqis currently displaced across the country since January 2014 through 10 November 2016.

Source: MENA