![]() Almost 1.5 million people are registered as internally displaced, making Iraq the sixth-largest displacement crisis in the world. Medicines are in short supply in most governorates, and water and electricity are lacking, even in the capital Baghdad. According to UNICEF, 30% of children are malnourished, and WFP reports that rates of acute malnutrition have reached 9%. The crisis is devastating for Iraqi civilians, in terms of death, injury, displacement, the denial of fundamental human rights and basic needs and the destruction of homes, vital facilities and infrastructure. Three years after Operation Iraqi Freedom, the US-led invasion of Iraq, was launched in March 2003, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is more critical than ever.
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