Children have been among those worst hit by "Islamic
State" occupation and the battle to liberate Mosul. They suffer
malnutrition for lack of food, and toxic stress from the violence they
witnessed, Judit Neurink reports.
"Look, he is walking again!" Hanan Mohammed, 43, smiles, setting her
two-year-old down on his skinny legs. The family of three recently
escaped the Old City of Mosul, where fighting had been going on for weeks, and food and water had been scarce for months."Daesh left us hungry," she says, using the local abbreviation for the self-styled "Islamic State" (IS) militant group. "There was nothing to buy, and what was there was very expensive." That's why she could not feed her children and lost a six-month-old baby to malnutrition. Her son had started walking, but stopped again for the same reason.
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