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The UN refugee agency is conducting a massive aid operation to assist some 500,000 Iraqis displaced by conflict in northern Iraq. It includes airlifts, and transport of aid by road and sea.
Meet some of the families who have fled their homes, including Yasir, who carried his disabled father for six days from Sinjar to safety, where their family is now receiving aid and support.
"We finally reached the peak of the mountains, there we found many children dead, old women and men left behind because their relatives couldn't carry them
I couldn't leave my father there. how could I leave my father on the mountain?"
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