The United Nations agencies underscored an urgent need for humanitarian assistance in Iraqi areas under siege by armed groups, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Thursday.
"The World Food Programme (WFP), which has delivered food to more than 700,000 people since the start of the crisis in June, warns that there is an urgent need for assistance in areas under siege by armed groups, particularly in Anbar and Salah al-Din," Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA) said that the United Nations continues to support the Iraqi government and the northern regional authorities in delivering emergency life-saving aid, he said.
"Key priorities are shelter, food, clean water and sanitation as well as medical assistance," Dujarric said. "Protection remains a critical issue."
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reports that a new camp for displaced people is now open in Dahuk, in the Kurdistan region, he said.
Since the major scale up of assistance last week, the UNHCR has delivered more than 10,000 tents and over 100,000 mattresses for hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
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