Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Relief Assistance Underway for Victims of Flooding, Pledges Continued Support for Government of Iraq Emergency Response Effort

by **claud39** Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:52 am

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Baghdad, Iraq – 24 November 2018 - The United Nations and international and local humanitarian partners have joined the Government of Iraq’s specialized agencies in providing support for the tens of thousands of victims of the severe flooding which swept many areas of Salah Eddin and Ninewa Governorates.

The floods caused by heavy rainfall have resulted in multiple deaths and injuries and displaced tens of thousands of people. Ninewa and Salah Eddin are the most heavily affected governorates, with multiple reports of bridges, roads and villages being inundated; damage was also recorded in the southern part of the country. An estimated 10,000 people in Salah Eddin and 15,000 people in Ninewa are in need of assistance, including thousands of families living in IDP camps.

“The UN is here, as always, to provide support to the government and authorities of the country in the discharge of their responsibilities to provide assistance to their citizens,” said Ms. Marta Ruedas, Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq.

Ms. Ruedas commended the Government of Iraq, which is leading the disaster response effort, for its immediate mobilization in response to the floods, including the deployment of civil defence personnel. The Humanitarian Coordinator noted that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi convened a meeting of the governmental Crisis Management Cell on 23 November to coordinate the emergency response activities of relevant ministries and the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.

Ms. Ruedas pledged continued UN support during this emergency situation. “We are assessing the situation to see where we could further assist the Government of Iraq in its response to this severe flooding.”

Losses are still being assessed, but initial accounts from flooded areas include the destruction of homes, livestock, and household items. Initial reports from partners indicate that the Shirqat district in Salah Eddin, and Qayyarah and Jeddah IDP camps in Ninewa, are among the worst affected.

Several needs assessments are already underway, led by the Rapid Response Mechanism and Logistics clusters.

In Salah Eddin, the Governor’s office began distributing food baskets to 1,000 displaced families in Shirqat, while UNFPA is planning to distribute 400 hygiene kits in coordination with their local partners in the area. International humanitarian partners are planning health assistance through mobile medical clinics in coordination with the Directorate of Health. Two thousand food rations will be distributed together with blankets, mattresses and household items in coordination with an international NGO.

In Ninewa, IOM distributed non-food items (NFI) kits to 2,350 families from the Qayyarah and Jeddah IDP camps who lost all their belongings. The Rapid Response Mechanism will send 2,000 kits to displaced families, with essential items including drinking water, emergency ready to eat food, and hygiene kits. WFP reported that its partners had successfully delivered 4,000 Immediate Response Ration parcels to affected areas, in coordination with Mercy Hands and camp management.
The Humanitarian Coordinator stated that additional needs assessments by health, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and protection partners are already planned for Sunday 25 November. She noted that the Iraq Humanitarian Fund could grant a reserve allocation for flood response, once there was a clearer sense of where the most urgent gaps remained.

For more information, please contact:
Hilary Stauffer
OCHA Iraq (Baghdad)
+964 782 780 4622
Email: staufferh@un.org

by **claud39** Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:02 am

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Government Media Cell: Trade sends foodstuffs to those affected by the floods in Nineveh and Salaheddin

25/11/2018 1:42 PM

Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Relief Assistance Underway for Victims of Flooding, Pledges Continued Support for Government of Iraq Emergency Response Effort Ha1602test

Ministry of Commerce companies and departments carried out a campaign to send basic foodstuffs and water to families affected by the rains and floods that swept through areas in the governorates of Salah al-Din and Mosul during the past two days.

The Minister of Commerce d. Mohammed Hashim Al-Ani on the work of the crisis cell located in Sharqat and the processing of food vocabulary, as well as the participation of technical and administrative effort in the rescue of families in the flood areas and delivery to safe areas, and equipped with the full vocabulary of food and ready-made bread, in coordination with the local government.

The Ministry of Commerce confirmed that the affected areas were equipped with more than 1,000 bags of flour and 10,000 pieces of bread.

The ministry companies began sending convoys loaded with quantities of water and ready-made bread to the district of Sharkat, after the formation of several companies sub-committees to provide the necessary support for the affected people.

The ministry also follows up the floods that swept through the provinces of Maysan, Diyala and Wasit, and put forward urgent plans to deliver food to the areas that may be affected by torrential rains and heavy rains that hit these provinces.

The Prime Minister has formed a government crisis cell to monitor the situation in the areas hit by the flood and to take urgent relief measures to help the citizens affected by it.

Government Media Cell

25/11/2018

by **claud39** Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:04 am

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Government Media Cell: Water resources confirm their control over the water situation from the east of the country

25/11/2018 1:45 pm

Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Relief Assistance Underway for Victims of Flooding, Pledges Continued Support for Government of Iraq Emergency Response Effort Ha1602test

The Ministry of Water Resources confirmed that the water situation is safe and that the floods that came from the eastern side of Iraq are controlled and began to recede and were directed towards storage in Hawr al-Shuweijah and its drainage to the Tigris River from the openings of the Nishama and Umm Al-Jari.

This came during the emergency meeting chaired by the Minister of Water Resources d. Jamal al-Adly, the crisis cell formed to ward off the flood danger in the presence of the officials of the ministry concerned with the water issue, in light of the wave of floods that swept a number of the provinces of Iraq recently.

Al-Adly directed the formation of a central operations room in all the governorates of the country and the distribution of responsibilities to the general managers and their presence in the field to provide mechanical and engineering support in anticipation of any emergency and control of the effects that resulted from the floods. He stressed the continued efforts of his ministry staff to work in the cities to help the people of cities to get rid of excess water Rivers and fountains.

Government Media Cell

25 November 2018

by **claud39** Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:07 am

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Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers announces the outcome of the losses resulting from the floods in Saladin and Nineveh

25/11/2018 2:24 PM

Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Relief Assistance Underway for Victims of Flooding, Pledges Continued Support for Government of Iraq Emergency Response Effort Ha1602test

The Joint Coordination and Monitoring Center at the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers announced the final result of the losses caused by floods in Saladin and Nineveh governorates.

According to the PCHR's report, the preliminary toll of Salih al-Din Governorate indicates that the number of victims reached 8, 150 homes in Khardaniya village, one house, 400 houses in Al-Huraiya village, 4 mud houses and more than 50 drowned. A car belonging to the people, and damaged a large number of shops.

According to the report, 307 families were evacuated from the village of Al-Khardaniya and transferred to the villages of Al-Itha and Suwaidan, 530 families from Al-Huraira village and transferred to Shukr village.

On the relief operations, the center said that the Ministry of Commerce coordinates with him the allocation of two thousand food ration to distribute to the people of the affected areas, and provide assistance in coordination with TDH, including blankets, mattresses and household items in full, and the Iraqi Red Crescent transported 1300 food baskets and 7800 blankets to those who suffered from floods.

On the Ninewa province, the report pointed out that the heavy rains that have hit the Qayyarah area since the night of 22 November led to floods and reached the Camp Camp in Qayyarah, and the government agencies and the Iraqi Red Crescent and the evacuation of displaced families and transferred to other camps, estimated the number of families about 1170, They lost all their possessions from food and bedding.

Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq: Relief Assistance Underway for Victims of Flooding, Pledges Continued Support for Government of Iraq Emergency Response Effort