The UNICEF estimated the number of the children trapped with their families inside Fallujah is at about 20,000. It called on “all parties to protect children inside Fallujah” and “provide safe passage to those wishing to leave the city.” Displaced Iraqi children stand outside a tent at a newly-opened camp in the government-held town of Amriyat al-Fallujah, which was set up to shelter people fleeing violence around Fallujah. BAGHDAD—The UN children’s fund on Wednesday issued a stark warning to Iraqi troops and Daesh militants in the battle for Fallujah to spare the children, the most vulnerable among the tens of thousands of civilians who remain trapped by the fighting for control of this city west of Baghdad. “Children who are forcibly recruited into the fighting see their lives and futures jeopardized as they are forced to carry and use arms, fighting an adults’ war,” the organization said in a statement.

Source: thestar June 01, 2016 13:40 UTC