More than 1,000 children have been killed in Iraq since 2014, when IS militants swept into the country, claiming territories, including Mosul and other major cities, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. More then 5 million children are in need of emergency humanitarian relief.
UNICEF: In Iraq, Children Suffering, Dying in 'Brutal' War Conditions
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Doctors say children and the elderly are most injured by lack of good food and water in the chaos of the war in Iraq, but they are also most likely to be injured in the violence. As families flee, IS militants fire at them and people that run the slowest
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As doctors try to inject 1-year-old Saja with nutrients in the hours after her family fled IS territory in Mosul, Iraq, June 21, 2017, they say even in Iraqi-held areas of the city, children suffer wide-spread diarrhea and vomiting from dirty water.
