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The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) extended its Internet connectivity services to the affected community in the CDO Community Centre in Arbat camp. This is the ETCs second Services for Communities (S4C) project in Iraq.

The ETC conducted a mission to Athbah, 15km from west Mosul, to install CMOSS-compliant radio equipment for staff in the new IHP overnight camp within Athbah field hospital compound.

A total of 87 humanitarians have registered to access ETC Internet connectivity services in Domiz and Arbat camps since the beginning of 2017.

More than 1,411 vouchers have been used by the affected population at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Youth Centre and Internet cafe in Domiz camp since the project started in June 2016. This was the ETCs first S4C project.

The ETC is in the process of receiving US$1.47 million from the Iraq Humanitarian Pooled Fund (IHPF), led by the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) and managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to provide services until the end of May 2018.

Situation Overview

People continue to flee Mosul under difficult circumstances, which are exacerbated by high temperatures. Many people living in Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-controlled areas are food insecure and have not had access to safe drinking water and medicines for weeks or months. Humanitarians continue to respond to the extremely fast outflows of people, but the pace and scale of displacement is stretching response capacities. In the past weeks, mass displacement of civilians continues in western Mosul. Since the start of the Mosul operation in October 2016, 678,177 Iraqis have been displaced.

Humanitarian and protection needs remain severe. Where possible, humanitarian partners, including the ETC, are planning to conduct more assessment missions in newly-accessible priority sites to determine needs on the ground.

The ETC is planning to conduct needs assessment missions in the priority camps identified to determine communications needs of humanitarians and later, affected communities.

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Iraq - ETC Situation Report #43 Reporting period 26/05/2017 to 30/06/2017 - Reliefweb

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IS suicide bomber dressed as woman kills 14 at Iraq camp BBC News The UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq, Lise Grande, condemned the attack. "This is terrible," she said in a statement. "The people who were attacked had fled to Kilo 60 for their safety. Many have travelled huge distances seeking help." In recent ... Suicide bomb blast kills Iraqis at camp for displacedAljazeera.com Suicide bomber dressed as woman kills 14 in Iraq refugee campThe Independent Iraq local official: Suicide bomber disguised in woman's all-covering robe has killed 14 people at camp for displacedWashington Post FRANCE 24 -kurv all 92 news articles »

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Karar Nushi, an actor and student in Baghdad, was found dead north of the capital

A male model was tortured and stabbed to death in Iraq, reportedly over his appearance.

Karar Nushi, an actor and student at the Institute Of Fine Arts in Baghdad, was found dead in Palestine Street, north of the capital.

His body was covered in stab wounds and bore signs of torture, Iraqi News report.

Social media followers say he received death threats from anonymous people online, who criticised his tight outfits and long hair.

Karar was understood to have been preparing for a male beauty pageant.

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Mourners on social media paid tribute to Karar, with some blaming Isis for spreading their hateful ideology throughout the country.

Isis militants have executed or punished civilians for breaking their strict version of sharia law, and have reportedly executed some on suspicion of homosexuality.

Last year, a man was thrown to his death from the top of a high building in Kirkuk, Iraq, and his corpse was then stoned by Daesh supporters on the ground.

Earlier in 2016, a blindfolded man said to be accused of homosexuality was thrown from a 10-storey building in Aleppo, Syria.

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Members of the Iraqi federal police dance with children and a national flag during a celebration in the Old City of Mosul, where the grueling battle to retake Iraq's second city from Daesh group fighters is now nearing its end, on July 2, 2017. (Photo by AFP)

Saudi Arabia, Persian Gulf Arab monarchies, Israel and factions within the United States and NATO have been behind the rise of Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, says an expert.

Weve seen the attempts to take Iraq apart failed, but it seems that the West is not ready to let Syria be free of terrorism yet, Gordon Duff told Press TV on Tuesday.

The Daesh experiment in Iraq has showed the idea that the Western intelligence agencies combined with Saudi Arabia and Israel could build a terror organization that could be powerful in pushing forward the alliances policies has failed, the senior editor of the Veterans Today said.

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Ahmed gingerly moves his left foot up and down, while lying in a hospital bed in eastern Mosul, Iraq. His face is gaunt and his speech laboured as he exchanges a few words with the medical staff who watch over him. A doctor nods encouragingly at the patient's slow and steady progress.

Three weeks ago, even these small movements were almost impossible. Since arriving at MSF's Al Taheel hospital, Ahmed has received a series of surgeries and post-operative care for injuries sustained over four months ago in an explosion outside his home. Four of his neighbours were killed in the blast, but survivors carried him to a nearby hospital.

There, Ahmed received emergency surgery to stabilise his condition. But shortly after, the hospital was hit in an airstrike. Despite his precarious medical condition, Ahmed was able to flee the embattled hospital to a relatives house. But he could not make it to another medical facility for weeks due to the fighting that raged around him.

Throughout the battle, emergency responders, including MSF, have provided life-saving interventions for the freshly wounded wherever it was possible to reach them, and first-line surgery remains critical for those caught amid ongoing conflict in western parts of the city. But stories like Ahmed`s reveal another medical need unfolding far more silently, affecting many of the hundreds of thousands of people who are trying to continue their lives in safer areas of eastern Mosul and in displaced persons camps.

In these places, many men, women and children still suffer from months-old and partially healed trauma injuries. Civilians walk with shrapnel still embedded in their bodies, hampering their movements. Men, women and children suffer from old burns and gunshot wounds. Patients who received external fixtures to stabilise shattered bones now have metallic pins protruding from broken limbs, at risk of infection.

For them, the journey of healing from the incapacitation of war injuries toward anything resembling a normal life is still long and very uncertain. Most hospitals in Mosul have been damaged or destroyed, meaning patients struggle to access healthcare and the provision of post-operative and rehabilitative care is desperately lacking.

MSF is operating two projects aimed at providing these vital services, but it can only help a very small proportion of those who require assistance.

Abood is a young boy receiving rehabilitative care at MSF's project in Hamdaniya, 35 kilometres outside Mosul. Having been hit in the back by a bullet while fleeing the fighting in Mosul, he understands all too well the life-changing difference that access to post-operative care can have. Initially, doctors warned that he may never walk again.

I was completely paralysed there was no hope left in my case, he says.

But after being referred for rehabilitative care with MSF, Abood, like Ahmed, is now also making incremental progress, day by day.

For the countless others who cannot access the post-operative care they need, the future is less certain.

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