Iraq: Tough Living Conditions

3,156 views · Published 30 July 2014 · 3:06 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2014 · News & Politics

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Ten days ago, a warehouse in the middle of empty wheatgrass fields became home to 5,000 Iraqis displaced from Mosul and surrounding areas. 

"We felt like we left our homeland...The feeling of being a refugee is very difficult...We haven't been through anything like this before"

Meet Yehya and his family, some of the 300,000 displaced from Iraq into northern Kurdistan since June. 

Read the latest on Iraqi displacement: http://rfg.ee/zKgNb 

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