IRAQ / AID EASTERN MOSUL

The World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday delivered food to 42,000 people living in the suburbs of in eastern Mosul. These are some of the first people that have been reached by humanitarian assistance after being trapped by the protracted conflict in Mosul. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:38
• Production Date: 9 December 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: FOOD DISTRIBUTION
• Geographic Subject: IRAQ
• MAMS Id: 1792446
• Parent Id: 1792446
• Alternate Title: unifeed161209a

Description

STORY: IRAQ / AID EASTERN MOSUL
TRT: 00:38
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: 8 DECEMBER 2016, MOSUL, IRAQ

Shotlist

1 Wide shots, trucks carrying food supplies parked on the road
2. Wide shot, staff unloading supplies boxes from the truck
3. Various shots, staff organizing WFP boxes for distribution
4. Various shots, people carrying boxes

Storyline

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) Thursday (8 Dec) delivered food to 42,000 people living in the suburbs of in eastern Mosul. These are some of the first people that have been reached by humanitarian assistance after being trapped by the protracted conflict in Mosul.

Many who received assistance were in a desperate state, and have been without food and living in often terrifying conditions for several weeks. Thursday’s distribution was the single largest humanitarian assistance operation carried out to date in the eastern part of Mosul since the recent conflict began. Fighting continues and many thousands more are faced with continuing daily life in or near to an active war zone.

Since the onset of the Mosul offensive in October, WFP has provided ready-to-eat food to more than 265,000 people affected by the conflict, of which around 210,000 have also received monthly food rations.

WFP currently has enough ready-to-eat food for all families affected by ongoing fighting in Mosul, and almost half a million family food rations in stock, which can feed up to 2.5 million people for one month.