Who are we sending aid to? There are 700 000 IDP:s only from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain. From the Telegraph: Christians – mostly ethnic Assyrians – had lived in Qaraqosh almost as long as Christianity itself. Potrus had no reason to expect radical militants would turn on the city. But then Isil’s mortar shells began to fall. He grabbed some money and ran out of his house with his wife, six children and grandchildren. He saw shrapnel sticking out of the body of a dead woman. Close by were the bodies of her two children. ‘It is very difficult to see these things,’ he says. He left his car behind – ‘an Opel, German, very expensive’ – ‘because I wanted to get out quickly’. The roads were blocked with people frantic to escape.
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