{"id":235686,"date":"2026-08-04T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/235686\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:50:09","slug":"civilians-trapped-in-mosul-could-face-worst-catastrophe-in-iraq-conflict-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/235686\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilians trapped in Mosul could face worst catastrophe in Iraq conflict, UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The fighting in the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul, where hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are trapped, could turn into the worst humanitarian &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; in the war against the militants, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">&#8220;If there is a siege and hundreds of thousands of people don\u2019t have water and don\u2019t have food, they will be at enormous risk,&#8221; U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Lise Grande told Reuters in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">&#8220;We could be facing a humanitarian catastrophe, perhaps the worst in the entire conflict,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq, was captured by Daesh in mid 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Iraqi government forces have taken back most of it in a U.S.-backed offensive launched in October, including the half that lies east of the Tigris river.<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The militants are now surrounded in the northwestern quarter including the historic Old City, using booby traps, sniper and mortar fire against the assailants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fighting in the Daesh-held Old City of Mosul, where hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are trapped,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[94,6255],"class_list":["post-235686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-iraq","tag-mosul"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117038037336765910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}