Iraq
forces are getting closer and closer to getting Mosul neighborhood back from
ISIS control. Soldiers have been being
sent into Shifa neighborhood and also Jamhouri Hospital, and also
counterterrorism forces are being sent to a neighborhood called Saha al
Awla. Wiith Old City under ISIS’s
control. Israel believes that it will be a challenge to retake old city because
of narrow streets. They also believe
that ISIS will use residents as human shields.
Special units are trying their best to evacuate as many residents as
they can. After Iraq forces take back
the neighborhoods under ISIS control the Iraqi government will have liberated
Mosul from all of ISIS’s control. ISIS
gained control of Mosul in 2014 which is Iraq’s second largest city.
About
742,000 residents of Mosul have fled the city since the fighting stated hoping
to avoid getting caught in the action. The
UN migration agency has seen the number of immigrates rising because of
this. These people lack clean water and
medicine and do not have a lot of food. The
UN is not involved in areas of fighting but they have heard reports of families
being used as traps. As well as children
being targeted by snipers. In Mosul
about 980 ISIS fighters has been killed and then 6,000 wounded.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/27/middleeast/iraq-mosul-operation/index.html
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