The UN warns against the extremely horrible conditions of Iraqi children as Daesh terrorists resort to more brutal tactics to save their last foothold in the country, saying children, particularly those in Mosul, are dying and suffering amid one of the \u201cmost brutal wars in history.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The UN warns against the extremely horrible conditions of Iraqi children as Daesh terrorists resort to more brutal tactics to save their last foothold in the country, saying children, particularly those in Mosul, are dying and suffering amid one of the \u201cmost brutal wars in history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross Iraq, children continue to witness sheer horror and unimaginable violence,\u201d the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said in a Thursday statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been killed, injured, abducted and forced to shoot and kill in one of the most brutal wars in recent history,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
The statement, prepared by UNICEF\u2019s representative in Iraq Peter Hawkins, noted that Daesh terrorists deliberately target and kill children in Mosul to punish families and deter them from fleeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are using children as a weapon of war to prevent people from fleeing,\u201d the statement said. \u201cThis highlights how indiscriminate and catastrophic this war is.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the report, 1,075 Iraqi children have been killed and 1,130 wounded or maimed since Daesh occupied nearly a third of Iraq in 2014. Over the past six months alone, 152 children were killed and 255 others injured, it added.<\/p>\n
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