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Erbil, Iraq – 9 February 2021 – Destroyed houses remain one of the main obstacles that prevent many internally displaced persons from returning to their hometowns and communities.
The absence of housing, jobs, and basic services such as water, sanitation, electricity, schools and health clinics, means that displaced people will try to remain in camps as long as possible. Alternatively, returning to their hometowns may mean moving in with relatives, sometimes three or four families in the same house, or renting, establishing temporary shelters in informal sites, or living in unfinished or empty buildings.
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Camp closures force Iraqi families back to shattered homes
by Samya Kullab, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 1:05 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 1:12 am EDT
DEBAJA, Iraq After living in a camp for three years, 70-year-old Merhi Hamed Abdullah returned to his village west of the city of Mosul to find it in ruins his first glimpse of home since Iraq defeated the Islamic State group.
To shelter his family of seven, Abdullah resurrected the tent he had hurriedly packed as the government closed Hamam Alil camp last month, forcing him and 8,500 others to return to devastated hometowns and an uncertain future.