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Key points:
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Food consumption deteriorates among resident households, especially in Mosul city.
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Most households in Eastern Mosul are without income and are going into debt to pay for essential food items.
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In the non-liberated areas of Western Mosul, households are becoming increasingly vulnerable as food and water supplies run out.
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Food prices increase in Mosul non-liberated areas as compared to previous months.
Situation Update
The cumulative number of IDPs from the beginning of the Mosul Operation on 17 October 2016 has exceeded 330,000 people. With an estimated 72,000 people having returned to their places of origin, some 270,000 people are still displaced across the Mosul area.
Since the military operation to retake Western Mosul began on 19 February 2017, over 167,000 people have been displaced from Western Mosul and the surrounding areas; 45,000 of these were displaced from 11-19 March, an increase of more than 22 percent from the previous week. An estimated 500,000 civilians remain inside Western Mosul. Reportedly Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have retaken about 60 percent of Western Mosul. The Government has informed the UN Humanitarian Coordinator (UNHC) that the expected number of people displaced from Western Mosul and the surrounding areas may go up from 250,000 to 400,000. Camps in the south and East of Mosul have reached full capacity and authorities have been transporting families to Gogjali in Eastern Mosul and Qayyarah south of Mosul to reside with relatives or with host communities.
To cater to the growing influx of IDPs, UNHCR is planning on expanding the camp in Hammam AlAlil 1 and establishing a new camp (Hammam Al-Alil 2) 10 km south of it.
The main supply route into Western Mosul remains cut since mid-November and there is a critical shortage of food in markets. Water and electricity supplies have also been cut and medicines are running out.