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As US-backed forces prepare a final assault on the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa, displaced civilians are dreaming of spending the end of Ramadan Eid holiday back home.
On May 16, Iraq's Sinjar province saw deadly violence. The positions of a Yazidi armed group affiliated with the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, were targeted by drone strikes attributed to Turkey. Security tensions are complicating the return to the province of Yazidis in exile, after a genocide perpetrated against them by the Islamic State group in 2014. In Sinjar and in refugee camps in northern Iraq, the Yazidi population warns of the absence of a clear governing authority to ensure their safety and bring public services back to the province. Our correspondent reports.
An unprecedented 71.1 million people were registered as internally displaced in 2022 -- up 20 percent from a year earlier -- amid mass displacement caused by factors including Russia's war in Ukraine and the monsoon floods in Pakistan. Alexandra Bilak, Director of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, warns that the findings of the body's latest annual report "paint a rather bleak picture of the world".
Snow covers a camp for internally displaced Syrians in the Khirbet al-Joz area, in the west of the northwestern Idlib province near the border with Turkey. The cold temperatures have exacerbated the already difficult living conditions. "We were rushing to sweep the snow off the tents. We have children. We were afraid the tents would collapse on them due to the heavy snow," says Um Ahmed.
A school turned into a humanitarian hub sees hundreds of internally displaced people and local Zaporizhzhia residents queue for hours for food distribution. Over 7 million people are estimated to have been displaced from their home since the Ukraine conflict began in late February. "We feel bad, we shouldn't be standing here," says one internally displaced Ukrainian from Gulyaipol. "We're left with only one hope: to return home," says another Ukrainian.
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