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Finland sends maternity packages to Mosul

Xinhua, December 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

Finland has dispatched 1,000 maternity packages and other aid supplies to Mosul, northern Iraqi, the Finnish Ministry of Interior said on Monday.

The maternity packages contained baby clothes and care products, said the ministry. Moreover, tents, camping mats, blankets, tarpaulins and soap were also provided to help ease the humanitarian crisis in Mosul.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the war-ravaged area is in urgent need of winter clothing for small children, among other necessities.

The ministry said that the aid supplied by Finland is based on the request made by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to the European Union, for providing humanitarian aid to Mosul.

In October 2016, Iraqi governmental forces with allied militias, Iraqi Kurdistan and international forces launched a joint offensive to recapture the city of Mosul, seized by the Islamic State in 2014.

Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city with a population of 1.5 million, has been mired in military conflicts for almost two months. The United Nations has warned that up to one million local residents could be forced from their homes by the warfare, with 700,000 of them in need of emergency shelter.

OCHA claimed recently that well-funded and effective humanitarian assistance would be critical. Endit