Operation room for displaced Christian families in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: An emigrants’ affairs official Ninewa said an operation room was formed to follow up the issue of Christian families displaced during the past few days from different places of Mosul city due to threats they received from unknown sources. “This operation room will work as a crisis management cell to count the number of displaced people, learn where they currently reside and their original places in addition to distributing aid to them,” Jawdat Ismail, the Ninewa’s emigrants department, told IraqiNews.com. “Aid was given today to more than 220 Christian families at different Christian towns in Ninewa,” he said. Meanwhile, a source from the Assyrian Democratic Movement denied news that displaced Christian families “live under bad conditions at school yards.” “Those families either live with their relatives, or rented a house or apartment,” he noted. A media source from the Assyrian Democratic Movement in Ninewa said that some 295 Christian families fled the city of Mosul during the past three days, while an Iraqi military source said that four Christians were killed today in two separate attacks in Mosul, recording a rising wave of attacks against the religious minority in the northern volatile city. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. MH (S)/AmR 1