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Humanitarian action alone can do little to protect in a situation where there is seemingly a collapse of common humanity on all sides.

UNHCR is grateful to its many donors who support our cash-based aid.

The onset of winter makes it even more vital that families are kept warm and dry – a small comfort after months spent living in constant fear.

The updated plan provides an overhauled set of best practices, taking into account larger and more complex flows of people in today’s world.

Many of those who have fled eastern districts are now in unfinished or partly destroyed buildings. Unsanitary conditions and overcrowding are already challenges in a congested city with few open spaces.

“I burn plastic and cardboard in order to get some warmth during the winter,” says 70-year-old Aisha, who fled her home in rural Damascus five years ago.

The number of Iraqis that have fled the fighting for control of the country’s second city reaches almost 73,000.

Just over a month since the start of the Mosul offensive, the UN Refugee Agency and its partners have been intensifying life-saving, emergency assistance for tens of thousands of displaced Iraqis.

UNHCR has welcomed the progress made by the Governments of Indonesia and the Philippines to confirm the nationality of nearly 3,000 people of Indonesian descent living in the southern Philippines.

The UN Refugee Agency opened the camp following the arrival of an estimated 8,000 Iraqis who fled the fighting in the past 24 hours.