A senior
military commander says more than 5,000 civilians have been evacuated
from newly-retaken eastern parts of the Islamic State group-held city
of Mosul and taken to camps.
The
commander of the Joint Military Operation Command, Lt. Gen. Talib
Shaghati, told reporters on Thursday that civilians have been fleeing
Mosul’s Gogjali, al-Karama and al-Samah neighborhoods since
Wednesday.
Shaghati
says that avoiding civilian deaths and damage to infrastructure are
among the main challenges faced by Iraqi troops during operation to
retake Mosul, which began on October 17. Inside Gogjali, security
forces fired into the air to disperse civilians who were waiting to
receive aid materials distributed by the Ministry of Migration and
Displacement.
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