An Israeli non-governmental organization has joined international efforts to help Christian and Yazidi families displaced by fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq.
IsraAID and its Canadian partner ONEXONE on Thursday distributed emergency supplies including 2,000 blankets and mattresses and powdered milk for more than 1,000 babies at the Khanke camp in the Duhok governorate in Iraq.
According to IsraAID, there are 14,000 displaced persons at that camp in Kurdish Region of Iraq.
The group says that 1,000 to 1,500 residents of war-torn Kobani in Syria cross through Turkey into Iraq daily, joining more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons and 200,000 refugees already in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Meanwhile, Islamic State, which controls much of Syria and Iraq, fired 44 mortars at Kurdish parts of the town on Saturday, some of which fell inside Turkey, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said four more were fired on Sunday.
The month-long battle for Kobani has ebbed and flowed. A week ago, Kurds warned the town would fall imminently and the U.S.-led coalition stepped up air strikes on Islamic State, which wants to take Kobani to consolidate its position in northern Syria.
The coalition has been bombing Islamic State targets in Iraq since August and extended the campaign to Syria in September after Islamic State made huge territorial gains.
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